Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britons had yet read General Dwight Eisenhower's war memoirs, Crusade in Europe (TIME, Nov. 22).* But by last week Anglo-American waters were already ink-black with controversy over them. The British press, which reserves to itself the right to criticize British heroes, broke out with salvoes of criticism of General...
When shooting broke out the night of his arrest, Chiang leaped from a rear window in his underwear. He scaled a ten-foot wall, stumbled into a deep moat and wrenched his back but climbed out and ran until he fell again, tripped by brambles in the darkness. He lost his false teeth. When overtaken, he once more insisted on being shot or sent back to Nanking...
...boys* had started out by stealing a .30-30 rifle from an unlocked car. Then they broke into a truck, stole cigarettes. Thus equipped, they headed out of town, hid in a ditch, and waited. Soon a car came along. One of the boys, masked with a handkerchief, sprang up, fired a warning shot. The car did not halt. There was another shot, a scream from the car, a slithering to a stop. Farmer James Millar Watson, 62, had been mortally wounded. A week later, when one of the boys confessed, police took them to jail...
...last year, was indeed on Navy's side -about half a dozen rows back. Soon the Navy men in front of him were jumping to their feet, and the President had to jump up to see too. It was that kind of game. Navy's Pete Williams broke loose around right end and went 59 yards. Four plays later Navy scored, to lead, 7-0, and the crowd went wild...
...king (in 1930 he hit 56, four short of Ruth's record); in Baltimore. An ex-coal miner, Wilson joined the New York Giants in 1923, hit his peak from 1926 to 1931 with the Chicago Cubs, finally drank his way out of the big leagues, ended up broke...