Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, on the banks of the River Meuse, France's ex-President Charles de Gaulle broke a long silence. He called for a Western European bloc, built around a Franco-British alliance, to stand as arbiter between the two giants of the East and West. De Gaulle quoted a prophetic countryman, Historian Alexis de Tocqueville, who wrote 111 years...
...following season Cugat took his polite rhumbas to Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, and later broke attendance records. Cugat credits much of his success to his female vocalists. He selects them "80% on looks and 20% on what goes into the ears. A man can't understand what my girl sings, but if he likes to look at her then I'm all right." Floorshow dancers are also handpicked. One of them, Cugat's niece, became Broadway Actress Margo; another became Hollywood's Rita Hayworth...
...moonlit Waikiki beach last week, the flying fishes had tough competition. Inside Waikiki natatorium, the crack team of the Hawaii Swim Club took on the visiting national A.A.U. champions from Ohio State. In the process, the Hawaiians broke one Olympic and three U.S. records-all to the greater glory of a sad, serious-minded U.S.-born Japanese whose ambition is to get his boys on a U.S. Olympic swimming team, and to be their coach...
...team championships in 1939 and 1940. Sakamoto was gunning for the 1940 Olympics, but they were called off. In 1941, before war dispersed them, Sakamoto's protégés won their third outdoor A.A.U. title; and one of them, Bill Smith, son of a Honolulu cop, broke most of the world's records from 200 to 800 meters...
...would also need equipment for: 1) removing the pile's "ash" (fission products), which slows down the chain reaction and eventually stops it altogether; 2) periodic repurifying of the uranium in the pile; 3) making repairs by remote control in case the battleship's engine broke down...