Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nervous Rash. Chile last week declared Zervino persona non grata. The Chilean press, handling the case with kid gloves, printed the court's findings without comment. The Argentine press broke out in a nervous rash of abuse...
...pilot pointed toward four olive drab Chinese air force transports across the field. "Looks as if the Chinese air force has just about pulled out," he said. "What are we doing here?" "What are we usually doing?" snorted another pilot. A short, young Chinese chief mechanic broke in: "You take me back to Nanking tonight, huh? I don't want to make no hero...
After Allen went off to war in 1942, some of the steam went out of the Merry-Go-Round, but it never broke down. Pearson got many a beat like the General George Patton* slapping story merely by printing what other newsmen knew, but had kept to themselves from feelings of patriotism or a foggy sense of newspaper ethics. He also made many a wild forecast -among them, that Marshal Tito would be assassinated in 1947 and, along with almost every pundit, that Truman would be beaten in 1948. He has not yet lived down his 1946 "disclosure" that...
...University of Southern California player made All-America-though U.S.C. gloriously wound up the season last week by tying Notre Dame, 14-14. The tie broke Notre Dame's string of victories at 21, one more than Knute Rockne's record...
Radcliffe broke a decade-old tradition yesterday when it called off the Christmas supper and story reading which was to take place in Agassiz Tuesday evening, after an informal poll taken in the dormitories showed that only a small percentage of the girls would be able to attend...