Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Originally an interventionist wing of the pacifist Harvard Union, former College liberal group, the insurgent H.L.U. broke away from the larger organization in 1941 during a disagreement over American entry into...
...three interested parties--only to be broken time and again by the trigger-happy commanders to whom a truce was for the other side to keep. Both factions came to look upon American efforts as strictly partisan, not to be taken too seriously, and the whole scheme of mediation broke down under the onslaught of self-interest...
Footloose. In Lille, France, tile-setter Yvon Dherire slipped from a roof, plummeted six stories, landed unhurt in a baby buggy from 'which a mother had just snatched her child. Consequence: the mother fainted, fell, broke an ankle...
Police last week were called out to squelch a one-hour riot which broke out among a crowd of 1,000 on the campus of Rome University. Ten people were injured. The original occasion of the gathering: a "forgive & forget ceremony"^ between former fascists and antifascists, which was part of a series of Sunday goodwill meetings...
...when Patel had become the mayor of Ahmedabad, unofficial capital of Gujerati-speaking India, his extraordinary skill as an organizer showed itself for the first time during the great Gujerat floods. Everything broke down-transport, communications, all methods of distribution. The general Indian attitude used to be to regard such catastrophes as acts of God What little relief there was usually came from a British Government which took its good time to relieve distress. Patel initiated an unheard-of fund-raising drive for the relief of the flood victims. Supplies were moved into the flood areas by hundreds of volunteers...