Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumania's Premier Petru Groza got U.S. and British notes, charging that Rumania had failed to live up to the Moscow agreements-had censored stories critical of Communists, had not scheduled free elections. Police broke into the American Military Mission headquarters in Bucharest and arrested all Russian civilian employes. Groza issued a routine denial of the U.S. charges, added a priceless promise: "The elections will take place when our barns are full...
...sympathies landed him in Ellis Island for two weeks in 1938. In white tie & tails the suave, beak-nosed Strachey (6 ft. 2 in.) enthralled U.S. audiences. But Communist policy in 1939 was too much for Strachey. He broke with them and did manful penance until the Laborites welcomed him home...
...afternoon showers, thousands of shirt-sleeved Cuban men and cotton-frocked girls trooped down Havana's laurel-hedged Prado. In brazen defiance of the armistice decreed for election week, they shouted the names of rival mayoral and congressional candidates. Sound trucks blared the notes of a conga, then broke out with political exhortations. In the Parque Central, dusky ti-1.trope performers attracted a crowd, then made campaign speeches from their precarious perches. In the sweltering evening, a great neon campaign sign, towed by an amphibious jeep, swam ghostlike along the harbor front...
Since its U.S. arrival, the "Russian ballet" has broken into a number of pieces, some of them put back together under curiously similar names. Ballerinas like Tamara Toumanova (see cut) were lured away by Hollywood. The latest of the companies recently broke with Hurok because its 40 dancers wanted to be known under their own name, Ballet Theatre, while Hurok insisted it was more glamorous to bill them as Russian...
...with the upper lip lifted away from the lower in a kind of child-like perplexity, and all sorts of soft thick yellow hair tumbling down. She was all small and white, with the hands of a baby, and little baby legs and feet. But what she had that broke my heart were big staring blue eyes-the amazed eyes of a scared little girl in a crazy and ferocious world...