Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the storm broke, the Senate hustled to get some of its cargo under cover. After 3½ weeks of listening to 50 witnesses, the Senate Labor Committee got down to the business of writing a new labor law to replace Taft-Hartley. The Banking Committee, with the support of 22 Senators from both sides of the aisle, brought out a housing bill which would provide 810,000 low-rent housing units by 1955, just about halfway between Harry Truman's request and Republican counterproposals...
...spent most of he,r life starving in a genteel way. During years of unsuccessfully "trying to do something worth while in the American theater" she said she sometimes lived on "apples and crackers" and once went without food for eight days. Finally, in 1940, she ended up broke in Berlin, hocked her "jewels" and went to work at a routine announcing job for the German radio...
...great mystery story that started with the Moscow purge trials of 1936-38 had not yet been solved. In spite of a thousand explanations, the free world still had little clue as to how Stalin's agents broke or bent the wills of their own comrades, of Mindszenty-and now those of the Bulgarian Protestant pastors. All confessed to what was certainly not true...
From time to time, his voice broke. Again & again the tall (6 ft.), robust man broke into tears, wiping his face with his handkerchief. "Believe me," he sobbed, "I am ashamed to beg for mercy. Give me a chance to correct my errors . . . Never in Bulgaria's history was there so much religious freedom as now . . . Christians and Communists are two brothers who have bypassed each other, but they will find each other some...
...Cadets are good, too. Jim Sholtz, 22-year-old senior, unofficially broke the world record in the 35-pound weight throw at the IC4-A's. A raised throwing platform prevented recognition of the record, but Sholtz will get another chance tomorrow--throwing from an official, ground-level board at Briggs Cage. "Sholtz is capable of throwing 63 or 64 feet," claims Sam Felton. Other possible event-winners for Army are Black Jack Hammack in the 600, and Win Scott in the broad jump. Both Army and Yale have swift one-mile relay teams, and the result of this event...