Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, when the Williamsburg moved into Narragansett Bay, he was sporting a two-day beard. He had a second sensation in reserve. When the yacht tied up at the Quonset (R.I.) Naval Air Base, he broke out a cap which made shoreside loiterers blink-a white creation with a wide bill and a billowy crown which flopped like a tam-o'-shanter. Thus arrayed he was driven to the Plum Beach home of his new naval aide, Captain James H. Foskett, where he contentedly attacked a heaping dinner of ham and chicken...
...fires of revolt, which flared up in Athens, Tenn. a fortnight ago, broke out anew last week 865 miles away in tiny, shabby Central Falls, R.I. (pop. 26,000). Again it was Army & Navy veterans who set the blaze; this time, four rookie policemen. But there were differences: 1) the rookies had never meant to light the torch of civic reform in the first place; 2) they fired no shots, broke no laws in waking up the town...
When fire broke out in an elevator shaft of the downtown Leader Building, the canvassers stopped firemen rushing in to quench the flames, handed them pamphlets describing the coming destruction of the world by fire which is part of the Witnesses' dogma...
Died. Metropolitan Eulogius (born: Vasiliy Georgievsky), 78, grey-bearded Archbishop of the Orthodox Church in Paris, titular head of all Russian Orthodox dioceses in Western Europe and North Africa; in Paris. Eulogius broke with the Moscow church in 1931, accepted the Patriarch of Constantinople as his chief until 1945, when he returned to the Soviet fold...
...hoping to envelop Crazy Horse, had split his regiment into three parts. But there had been a "sad and terrible" mixup. One part of the 7th had been attacked before the others joined it. It had been annihilated. The other two had then been heavily engaged, until the Sioux broke off and retreated victoriously toward the Big Horn Mountains...