Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Abdullah Ibn Hussein, British-crowned monarch of Trans-Jordan, his son, Emir Naif, and a suite of 16 ministers and notables, had traveled some 900 miles (via Turkish presidential yacht and train) to discuss the dream of an all-Moslem Orient. This would include Turkey, from which the Arabs broke away during World War I. One possible purpose: to serve as a road block to Soviet expansion in the Middle East...
...started from the four cardinal points, which are Picasso, Matisse, Braque and Bonnard. They were the armored spearhead that broke through the enemy defenses. We have been the fighting infantry which poured through the gap they opened; we widened the breach and eventually we will rout the enemy. We may not be the creators they were-time alone will decide that. But we did achieve one thing: we have changed . . . that mass of more or less enlightened public for whom those four masters were undecipherable phenomena. It is a fact that now people make an effort to see without their...
...slowly raised himself, eased his green-stockinged feet over the side of the bed until they touched the floor. With a nurse holding each arm, he stiffened up straight, and, with slow, tottering, stiff-knee steps, he walked. The room, jampacked with doctors, politicos, newsmen, broke into applause...
...headlines broke out on Marshall and Byrnes (see,NATIONAL AFFAIRS), gossip columnists rushed forward and took hasty bows. Some of the gossips (who predict a hatful of things, on the chance that a few will come to pass) had predicted long ago that Jimmy Byrnes would quit. In their self-adulation they missed a more exciting item: how a smart reporter had smoked out the season's biggest diplomatic story three days before...
...Steps. In Salisbury, Mass., William Murray tripped outside his house, broke his left leg, yelled for his wife, who rushed out to him, tripped, broke her left...