Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Having covered my share of wars, insurrections, uprisings, etc., I was prepared for a certain amount of trouble en route. But the Burma rebellion now in progress broke out after we had left, and the minor war around Kashmir didn't bother our seeing the Taj Mahal (a not the least overrated spectacle) at all. We had been warned that Cairo was no place for tourists this year, but, aside from one explosion near our quarters when some Arabs planted a bomb in a Jewish-owned department store, we made it safely out to the pyramids and back. Before...
...Couple of Acres. Adolf had been battered by the war. He was broke; the records of his immigration case had vanished. Anna sent him clothes and money, and got a Manhattan lawyer, Polish-born Charles Czalczynski Carroll, to handle his case. When Carroll finally badgered the Polish foreign office into giving Adolf a passport, Anna sent him a $463 airline ticket to New York...
...Russia's Andrei Vishinsky. He broke his week-long silence in the council to snarl: "It is useless to think that the U.S.S.R. delegation will bite at this bait. It is naive to believe that the U.S.S.R. delegation will stick to the glue which has been spread over the piece of paper which is now called the Berlin question...
...more often cowards than heroes, Washington had little respect. Of one group of 400 recruits, 114 deserted. More than once they broke and ran as soon as enemy were reported near. Washington hanged two deserters who had been sentenced to death by shooting and wrote to the Governor: "Your Honor will, I hope, excuse my hanging instead of shooting them. It conveyed much more terror to others; and it was for example sake...
Precaution. In Los Angeles, Ross E. Piper reported to police that the burglar who broke into his house had stolen nothing but the burglar alarm...