Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senate investigators had been heating up a griddle for the two major generals since last month, when the New York Herald Tribune broke the story of ex-Army Colonel James V. Hunt, a five-percenter whose "dear friends" assertedly helped him get contracts. The two major generals were high up on Hunt's list...
...exhibition tells the story of a man who almost singlehanded broke the tradition of his time & place, taught Venetian art to loosen its stiff Byzantine and Gothic joints. In his Pietà with St. John, which shows Mary supporting the body of Jesus while the dazed John stares into the distance, Bellini brought the tightlipped, hot-house Byzantine virgins of earlier Venetian painting out into the clear sunlight of the Italian countryside...
Three hours later, rocking through the driving rain and ghostlike clouds of a monsoon storm, Captain Chris van der Vaart, one of KLM's most experienced pilots, nosed down. When the plane broke through the murk, they could glimpse the sea and the approaches of Bombay's Santa Cruz airport. As the pilot headed northeast to circle for a landing, the plane was again swallowed by the low-hanging mists. Suddenly its left wing brushed a hidden, tree-covered, 674-foot hill, ripped along its slope as the pilot frantically tried to gain altitude. Some 20 feet from...
Here & there, the U.S. economic skies cleared a bit last week. The stock market climbed again; the U.S. auto industry broke all previous records by rolling out 148,277 cars and trucks, the biggest week in its history. But the recession's storm clouds still scudded threateningly over the horizon...
...Indianapolis speedway 18 years ago, husky, young William Richards drove his racing car over the side of the track, smashed up, and was carried away with a broken pelvis. "When you're hurt and broke," Richards later related, "you naturally come home." Back he went to his native New England, looking for something less dangerous. Said Richards: "I stumbled into farming...