Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half years ago the fate of 16 Poles almost broke up the San Francisco Conference which was planning the United Nations. Pretending to live up to its Yalta promise to broaden the Polish Government, Russia had lured the 16 underground leaders out of hiding. Then, violating their promise of safe conduct, the Russians had kidnaped the 16, tried them for "diversionary acts" against the Red Army, sentenced them to prison. The U.S. and Britain set up such a squawk that the Russians reduced some of the sentences...
...flower show. Macclesfield's wise money was all on the old champ's posies to cop the prizes, and only a few flashy characters, who were strangers to the town, bothered to play the long shots opposing Jim. Then, a day or so before the show, someone broke into the Jackson hothouse and poisoned his six best blooms...
...nice news? ... A news editor with that type of mind would be like a general with a conscientious objection to killing. . . . The London press is already too niminy piminy." When other British national papers were niminy piminy about the story of Edward VIII and Wallis Warfield Simpson, the Mirror broke...
...Despite its critical successes, London Films went broke for lack of U.S. outlets, leaving Korda's company owing ?700,000 to Prudential. He recouped in Hollywood, went back to England, hocked his life insurance policy to make the British propaganda film The Lion Has Wings. It earned him a handsome profit and helped win him a knighthood. Korda, whose finances puzzle even his friends, then bailed out London Films, bought a controlling interest in British Lion, a top-rung distributing company, and issued ?1,000,000 in stock...
...greatest confidence games in history. Drunk on pure alcohol, the braves "sighed and applauded like a congregation of Follies girls at a Mainbocher private showing" when they receiver a doorman's uniform for their furs. The mountain men fought better than the Indians, hysterical missionaries broke down their religion, and civilized diseases destroyed their bodies...