Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thanks. That did it. Bevin flatly rejected Molotov's dilatory proposals. Roared he: "How would the Soviet Union like it if she were asked for a blank check?" The British broke the conference's strict news blackout with an announcement that the session had ended in "complete disagreement...
...handsome rosary. Then Evita went on to visit the Borgia apartments (which are still haunted, Italians say, by the ghosts of libertine Pope Alexander VI and his daughter Lucrezia), and to pray at St. Peter's, where some 100 curious onlookers waiting under the front colonnade broke into applause...
...were shrill cries of "knuckle-down tight" and "whoa marble," as the boys plunked nibs out of a 10ft. ring. The game was strictly for keeps, and towheaded, ten-year-old Larry Vinson (known around school as "Big Lick") suffered the penalty of being too good. He complained: "I broke every kid in school . . . can't get anybody to play with me any more...
...soled so many times your foot was an inch off the ground." Nourished on hard-won sow belly and corn pone, he swept up in cotton mills, ran errands, jerked sodas and sold papers until he caught the eye of Clarence Saunders, ex-Piggly Wiggly king. When Saunders went broke in 1931, Crouch was in Oakland, Calif, running 44 of his stores...
...Scopes trial of the '20s, great legal eagles are flown in and the press comes to roost. The trial drags on as the lawyers find in a few inches of local precipitation the world issue of Religion v. Science. Crops go unsown, the town goes almost broke before the preacher gets the atheist to admit, on penalty of being shown "negligent," that he himself prayed for the rain to stop. Clearly then, says the preacher, it was prayer against prayer, and the case has already been judged in the Highest Court...