Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noticeable chill settled over the room. Eisenhower looked at Taft. Taft looked at Eisenhower. Arthur Vandenberg looked at both. Then Ike answered that he had some specific ideas in mind, but there was not time to go into them. On that note the party broke...
...maims him, embroils him with the law and provides mobile shelter for rakes intent on seducing his daughters. He takes it into his garage as fondly as an Arab leading a prize mare into his tent. He woos it with Simoniz, Prestone, Ethyl and rich lubricants-and goes broke trading it in on something flashier an hour after he has made the last payment...
...last week, the Foreign Ministers' conference broke up early. It mattered little, for only disagreement was on the order of the day (see below). King George and Queen Elizabeth were giving an "evening party" at Buckingham Palace. The Russians arrived with their bodyguards, but left them in the courtyard. In the lofty Blue Drawing Room, Molotov and colleagues stuck together in a tight little knot and touched neither the champagne cup nor the whiskey and sherry. They did not even smoke. George Marshall stuck with U.S. Ambassador Douglas. Winston Churchill, looking as gloomy as his frock coat, left early...
...gave this up to report for Philadelphia's Jewish World. He got to Palestine by joining the Jewish Legion in World War I, stayed as correspondent for U.S. and British papers. He founded the Post (with later help from the Jewish Agency) as a pro-mandate organ, broke with the British...
...dangerous symptoms of dramatic activity broke out during the first half of the nineteenth century. A certain Holworthy was famed among members of the Class of 1848 as an actor for his displays in Hasty Pudding mock trials, but Holworthy himself had never considered his achievements theatrical. "I don't remember any plays," he said. "In that time I do not think plays of any kind would have been permitted...