Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coated breakwater near Northwestern University's campus at Evanston, Student Dwight Cook watched the 20-foot waves pound in from Lake Michigan. Suddenly, one licked him out of sight. In Chicago, the blizzard sent pedestrians sprawling, snapped power lines, broke windows and stopped traffic. Thunder hammered across a sky that flashed red, purple and orange. For good measure, the dust from Texas arrived to turn the snow yellow and brown, and started Chicagoans searching their Bibles...
...beer. But the cold wave brought far more serious hardships and economic dangers to Britain. Trains and trucks stood idle, schools and factories had to shut down as the coal shortage shut off heat and electric power. Office workers strained their eyes by candlelight. Water mains and pipes broke everywhere (since Britons stubbornly cling to the illusion that their winters are never very cold, water mains are not buried deep enough and many homes have rickety, poorly insulated "afterthought" plumbing, laid along outside walls). London's News Chronicle carried a cartoon depicting two Englishmen viewing an icicle-hung pipe...
Before another all-German denazification tribunal, foxy old Papen was making a belligerent defense. The prosecution contended that he had forged the Hindenburg will which aided Hitler's accession to power; Papen hotly denied it, later broke down and wept because "nobody would believe him." His prospects of acquittal were not noticeably brightened when a sympathizer's bomb exploded harmlessly in the office of the court's president, Camil Sachs...
...Hutterites are a group of almost 4,000 "Christian Communists" who broke away, in the 16th Century, from the Mennonites (see RELIGION). They have been in Canada since 1918. Albertans have not been overfriendly to them because of their aloofness (they have large families, live in isolated colonies), their communal farming (individuals own nothing, pool everything), their pacifism (they are conscientious objectors...
...both pricked and tickled a contented and complacent America in the form of New Dealers, Willkie-ites, isolationists, prophets of the Golden Age of Science, the avant-garde of the "truly American" culture--it was the product of liberal education, too much education but still not enough. War broke most of the bones of those ideals, and now they are socially quite unpresentable. But an untouched and confident corps of students are stepping up to receive their dose of the liberal arts and they will emerge with a bright new idealism: it will be very similar to the old. Meanwhile...