Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patient Van. Next day, on the Senate floor, wild and woolly debate broke forth. In it, the leadership of Arthur Vandenberg, whose Foreign Relations Committee had reported out a bill giving the Administration the full sum it asked for, was sorely tested by his fellow Republicans. Patiently, Vandenberg accepted one carping amendment after another-e.g., Idaho's Glen Taylor insisted on having it down in black & white that aid funds should not be used to buy arms...
...They sat out a typhoon in Hong Kong, a binge and hangover at Amoy. Flying in loose formation, they worked out a bit of dialogue to pass the time on their long hops. Cliff: "We're lost, but we're making good time." George: "We're broke, but we're having a lotta fun." On their most hazardous leg, 1,600 miles over open water between Japan and Shemya (near Attu), they got an escort of Army...
...Omaha, the railroad trainmen's President A. F. Whitney spun like a pinwheel. After Harry Truman broke the railroad strike in 1946, Whitney had bellowed: "You can't make a President out of a ribbon clerk." Now he came out for Truman in '48. Said he: "My good, Christian parents taught me it is a good thing to forgive and forget...
...voting, which usually takes 30 minutes, lasted four hours. Next day, opposition members broke up a committee studying the coal bill. Manfully 57-year-old Banboku Ono, general secretary of the Liberal Party (which is conservative), slugged it out with the 49-year-old Socialist chairman of the House Steering Committee, Inejiro Asanuma. Other members-plus the stenographers-joined the battle, using notebooks for ammunition...
...Louis fight met with a formidable contender for the center of attention last night when Freshman gymnasts in the north entry of Stoughton Hall broke the fourth floor sprinkler system, setting off the fire alarm...