Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conway, Ark., Pitcher Woody Jobe served up a fast ball that broke the batter's nose, then snapped off a second pitch that broke his own arm. In Salem, N.H., the local athletic club lost its biggest game when a black snake slithered out of Shortstop Bruce Magoon's glove just as he was about to scoop up an easy grounder...
...division commander, ended up with four armies under him. His armies delivered the final knockout to the Nazis' Afrika Korps in three weeks, knifed through Sicily in jig time and had the Germans reeling out of France in less than a month. Ernie Pyle broke his own ban against writing about Army brass to eulogize this general with the schoolmasterish manner, "so unanimously loved and respected by the men around him and under him." One of his officers summed up Bradley to Pyle: "He has the greatness of simplicity and the simplicity of greatness...
...Medina. Thompson had been head of Ohio's Young Communist League from 1938 to 1941. Had he ever used the party slogan: "The Yanks are not coming?" Thompson was vague: "Very possibly ... in all probability . . . it would have been consistent with policy at that time ..." Judge Medina broke in impatiently: "That's a regular formula. It's maybe this, and maybe that, or I may have, but he knows well enough whether he used...
...ranks" when he meant, he admitted under crossexamination, only the "ranks" of the national committee. "You agree that in the Communist Party 'the ranks' means the national leadership?" prodded the prosecutor. "I object, he didn't say he agreed," said Defense Lawyer Richard Gladstein. Judge Medina broke in: "That's right. It might have been-he assumed it was-it may have happened-it probably was the case-it was most likely so-but Mr. Thompson didn't at any time agree...
...years ago, realizing its hot and violent dream of freedom, India formally broke away from the British Raj. More than once since then it had seemed as if the great subcontinent would consume itself in war; by this summer, India gave the greatest promise of stability in Red-flooded Asia. But that stability was far from secure. From New Delhi, TIME correspondent Robert Lubar cabled...