Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Justice Jackson broke in and told the harassed, striped-trousered government lawyer that he should devote some argument to what would happen if the courts lacked jurisdiction to issue an injunction in a case like the coal dispute...
...Joseph William Martin Jr. as its 45th Speaker. It was a straight party vote (244 to 182). Retiring Speaker Sam Rayburn paid his successor a compliment: he is "a friend of mankind, a man of unquestioned character, of demonstrated ability, with a great, fine heart." Then Sam Rayburn broke precedent, swallowed his pride and reverted to the minority leadership...
Texas Sandman broke out of the starting gate like a hobby horse, next to last. Then, for reasons known only to himself, the Sandman awoke. First, he gained ground on the inside, then he tried the outside. Buzfuz was quitting, and the pacesetter, Fighting Frank, did not appear to have much fight left. In the stretch, Texas Sandman took the lead, wobbled a bit toward the rail, but brazened it out to win first place and $45,150. For a six-year-old, that was pretty good: almost 180 times his $250 purchase price as a yearling...
...dropping back a man on the side opposite the Crimson ballhandler in a shifting defense, the Bruins were able to put two players on Hauptfuhrer in the pivot, a move which all but crippled the Varsity offense. After Gantt broke loose for his three tallies, the Brown team was forced to play Hauptfuhrer more loosely, and George responded with a scoring spurt of his own, scoring eight of his fourteen points after Gantt entered the contest...
...again at 4:15 (having stopped for a drink at his club), spends most of his evenings with a whiskey or beer before his fire reading biographies, mysteries, books on astronomy-or almost anything else that gets into print. Characteristically, he was only mildly disturbed last month when burglars broke into his home and left with his watch and cigaret case. Said he: "I'd hate to think it was one of my clients...