Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rockefeller Center, before the gilded statue of Prometheus, the American Association for the United Nations was industriously hammering together a set of flagpoles, loudspeakers and rostrums for the celebration of "United Nations Week." Westchester County's Tarrytown had somehow been appointed "model United Nations community," and forthwith broke out in a rash of red-white-&-blue bunting. While 10,000 enthusiasts besieged the Secretariat for tickets to the great International Floor Show (only 30 visitors would be admitted the first day), Tarrytown's Fire Department, the Girls' Friendly Society, the Kiwanis Club of Bound Brook...
...crowd broke into uproarious laughter and cries of "Death to De Gasperi-hang him in the Piazza, Loreto!" (where Mussolini was strung up), and "Death to Truman...
...When the U.S.-inspired revolution broke out in Panama, the U.S. cruiser Nashville and the gunboat Dixie guarded the entrance to Colón's harbor, to prevent landing of Colombian troops. The U.S. promptly recognized Panama's independence. Within a month the new republic granted the U.S. control over a ten-mile strip of land that was to become the Canal Zone...
Though their readers may be unaware of the fact, newspapers go to great lengths to be circumspect whenever they report lotteries: U.S. postal laws prohibit news of lotteries. News of Irish Sweepstakes winners is usually lifted out of any editions going through the mail. But a news story which broke two months ago in Ahoskie, N.C. was something different. It involved a raffle, but the point was that a Negro who had drawn the winning number had.been refused the prize, a Cadillac...
Next inning, at the plate, there was a face-to-face exchange of hot words between Robinson and Garagiola-the kind of rough passage that fans appreciatively call a "rhubarb." Umpire "Beans" Reardon hastily stepped between the two and broke it up. That was the end of it: no fisticuffs on the field, no rioting in the stands. But it was a sign, and an important one, that Jackie had established himself as a big leaguer. He had earned what comes free to every other player: the right to squawk...