Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Avoid blunders. Mathieu recalls how one of his Geneva colleagues, a gentleman of impressive girth, all but broke up a session when he slapped his paunch and solemnly repeated after a woman delegate: "Speaking as a wife and as a devoted mother...
...desperation, Joe told friends he was too broke to go to England. The Taunton Gazette heard the story, published it. In six days, Taunton citizens raised $2,000 for Joe's plane fare and expenses, and Massachusetts' Congressman Joe Martin hustled through his passport. At week's end, after a flight across the sea, Joe and Pam were together again, if only for a while...
...equipment much faster than the rate at which other nations could develop their own atomic plants independently. The U.S. would not hand over another piece of knowledge or equipment until the Authority provided adequate security by mastering the previous stage of its job. If at any point the Authority broke down, the U.S. and other nations would be left with just about the same advantage (in stockpile of bombs, uranium plants, know-how, etc.) which they could expect to have in an unrestricted atomic arms race...
...names of two of its prominent leaders, Rindskopf and Kalbskopf (Oxhead and Calfshead). The general confusion was epitomized by a Munich professor who was called before a huge audience to give the real lowdown on the problems of German reconstruction. Owing to a nervous tic, this professor always broke into a broad grin whenever he had something serious to say. So infectious was his ailment that his audience, after listening to his grim dissertation on Germany's total collapse, walked out convinced that the apparent tragedy was just a huge joke...
...staff succumb slowly but surely to the enemy. Strange palsies seized the hands of cartoonists when they were asked to depict Hitler; a poet who had made Germany laugh with his verses "On Hitler's Mustache" took to wearing a brown shirt. When Hitler's minions broke into the offices to tear them apart, they found a magazine that was already dead by its own hand...