Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four days later a C-54 tried again, this time releasing a glider and two-man crew for an air-ground pickup. Twice the tow plane managed to snare the glider on a pickup line. Both times the glider broke through the icy crust and bogged down in the snow; the pickup line snapped. The glider's crew joined the nine stranded men on the icecap. More food and clothing were dropped, along with heaters, fuel and a collapsible plywood shelter. The shivering airmen burrowed into the snow, rigged a canvas roof overhead as protection against the gale...
Modest Boast. As the session broke up Christmas Eve in the ornate, damask-walled council room of the Pan American Union, all the delegates seemed satisfied. O.A.S. Secretary General Alberto Lleras Camargo of Colombia allowed himself a modest boast: "This is a little quicker than the U.N. Security Council...
Precisely at 4, the band in the Plaza Mexico broke into the traditional Andalusian Skies, and the winter bullfighting season was on. In his box halfway up the ring's shady side, an erect, piercing-eyed old man in a broad-brimmed black hat glared about him. The wind was too strong for good bullfighting, he groused; the sun too bright. In their brilliantly colored capotes de paseo (parade capes), the toreros marched into the ring. "No elegance!" the old man harrumphed...
Forced to move, they settled in nearby New Philadelphia. There Mrs. Marsh kept the family together by iron determination and a switch that was put to stinging use whenever any of the boys broke her cardinal rule: "Don't fight among yourselves. You must depend on each other." By mowing lawns, selling papers, and other odd jobs, and paying heed to "Mother," the Marshes made ends meet. In six years Mother Marsh bought a white frame house...
Originally, Ebe was to have come to the U.S. in 1940 (she had a Met contract), but couldn't leave Italy after the war broke out. She likes Italian opera best, has the power and range, but "not the temperament" to sing Wagner. Says she: "It is dangerous for an Italian to attempt Wagner. I do not feel heroic...