Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary of State then broke a 149-year U.S. tradition against entangling alliances, urged a 25-year renewable Big Four treaty to "insure that the total disarmament and demilitarization of Germany will be enforced as long as the peace and security of the world may require." The method: strip Germany of all war-making power, keep her stripped by setting up a four-power inspection system and military force to pounce on the slightest infringement. He also offered a similar treaty on Japan. The U.S. was willing to keep troops in both enemy countries until the four Allies agreed that...
...speaker's carafe and emptied it on the head of stunned Minister Michelet-a teetotaler, but not that partial to water. At this point a young woman jumped onto the platform and went at Communist Curabet with her fists. Reported the semiofficial news agency: "The meeting then broke up in confusion...
Adet Lin, 23, eldest daughter of best-selling Philosopher Lin Yutang, broke the news in Boston that she had been secretly married a fortnight to Richard Biow, 26, son of a prosperous Manhattan adman. In the couple's top-floor flat near the elevated and Boston's waterfront, Husband Biow told the press: "I guess what drew us together was-well, just our interest in each other." Said surprised Philosopher Lin (The Importance of Living) of his literary daughter (Our Family) : "She will come home after a short period-I have no doubt...
...heavy toll was largely caused by the horse's civilized stupidity. Five of the Arden racers which had been led to safety broke loose, ran back into the blazing barn and perished. After generations of being groomed and cared for by man, horses feel that their stalls are the best and safest place in an emergency. They don't know what fire is and have little or no wild instinct left to warn them against...
Died. Charles William Anderson Scott, 43, British war (I) ace who thrice broke the England-Australia flight record (1931-32-34); winner of the Harmon Trophy as the best aviator of 1934, winner of the 1936 Portsmouth-Johannesburg air race; by his own hand (gunshot); in Germany...