Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Harold Stassen, the young keynoter of the 1940 convention, decided at the last minute to be Wendell Willkie's floor manager, too, and that he was a driving force in the revolt that gave Willkie the nomination. The rest of that bit of history is that Stassen broke with Willkie after 1940. He gave an extraordinarily cool review to Willkie's One World on the front page of the New York Times Book Review, and he refused to go along with Willkie in the latter's fight to name the G.O.P. national chairman in 1942. Unlike...
Gandhiji had moved into a Moslem house in Calcutta's Moslem quarter, which had been assailed by his fellow Hindus. He appealed to Hindus to keep peace. Angry young Hindu fanatics broke up a prayer meeting at his house. For the first time, Indians stoned Gandhi's house. Gandhi spoke sadly to the crowd: "If you still prefer to use violence, remove me. It is -not me but my corpse that will be taken away from here...
...confused with an earlier Yankee Murderers' Row (Ruth, Gehrig, Meusel and Lazzeri), whose club banged out 158 home runs in 1927.**Last week, two other National League teams caught the fence-busting fever and broke out in a rash of home runs. In one game, the Stv Louis Cards and Pittsburgh Pirates hit ten between them, tying the major-league record...
...Brookhaven, L.I., a dragline excavator manned by a nuclear physicist broke ground last week for the first chain-reacting pile to be built in the U.S. in peacetime.* Financed by a $10 million Government appropriation, it will be the heart of the great Brookhaven National Laboratory, to be built by the U.S. as a common experiment center for the nuclear scientists of Eastern universities. Other atomic giants will soon cluster around it: cyclotrons, synchrotrons, a Van de Graaff electrostatic generator-all the monstrous machines of the Atomic...
...that time it was 6:44 p.m., E.D.T. and the announcer broke in with the standard cliffhanger: tune in tomorrow and hear what happened. Next day, listeners learned that Jack had survived: he had taken the unusual precaution of packing a third parachute, which he whipped out just in time for a safe landing...