Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only gleam of hope for Kirkland rooters came early in the opening stanza, when a Deacon quick-kick bounced off Dick Muessel's hand and into the end zone, where it was covered for two quick points. The final scoring came similarly in the last quarter when Bob Adams broke through to block a Deacon kick. In the end-zone scramble, he fell over the back line for two more points. House grid Ratings Won Lost Tied ELIOT 5 0 1 KIRKLAND 4 1 0 LEVERETT 4 1 0 DUDLEY 3 4 0 LOWELL 2 3 0 ADAMS...
...hair, Lady Cripps's vivacity helps melt his icy public front. In a recent interview with a reporter, Cripps was stiffly formal. To almost every question he objected: "Well, you really can't ask that," or "Sorry, but that's Cabinet policy." At last Lady Cripps broke in: "Now, Papa, why can't you be more human...
...World War II started, Cripps sat alone, an independent, in the House of Commons. Tory Churchill, who knew ability when he saw it, put him to work. As British Ambassador to Moscow, Cripps concluded the long-sought Anglo-Russian Pact. Cripps was so happy on this occasion that he broke his ten-year rule of teetotalism to drink a toast in champagne with Russian friends. As the Government's special emissary to India, he failed to work out the terms of independence (mostly because he was not given elastic bargaining powers), but left behind a wealth of good will...
...headlines, Big Red had color. His post manners, in the days before starting gates, were atrocious. He liked to rear up on his hind legs and terrify the jockey with his lunging and plunging. But when Red settled down to his tremendous stride (once measured at 24 ft.), he broke track records, and the hearts of ordinary horses foolish enough to race against him. A bargain horse (he cost $5,000), Man o' War won 20 of his 21 starts in his two years of racing...
Back into Uniform. Siqueiros next turned up in Los Angeles, where he painted a mural showing a Mexican peon bound to a cross surmounted by an American eagle. He was promptly deported. Then the Spanish civil war broke out, and Siqueiros got back into uniform with something like relief. Fighting still came naturally; he commanded a motorized brigade in the battles of Caballon, Guadalupe and La Granja, and rose to be a division commander just before the end. Back home, he was welcomed at first, then thrown in jail for eight months on suspicion of taking part in the first...