Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chairman Charles Kersten of Wisconsin tried to familiarize him with the general idea by reading from Stalin's Problems of Leninism. "I'm afraid you're trying to indoctrinate me," Fitzgerald broke...
Nine years ago, war broke out chiefly because there were too many men too much afraid of war. Because of their fear they sold or forgot the faith, the common sense, and the courage which might have prevented war. Today, the danger of war lies, as it did in 1939, with the men who fear war too much...
...About the crazy thing at Princeton-although I kept telling him I had to have a definite answer to our relations problem it was still that same maybe-mañana-perhaps-or this one little piece, until he just decided to drive away-well-the lack of anything broke up my mind...
...Onetime Indianapolis Speedway Driver Cliff Bergere drove a 15-block course in Colorado Springs, Colo., carefully adhering to traffic rules, finished in 9 minutes and 35.1 seconds. Then, with police permission, he went around again at illegal speeds; he broke 52 traffic rules but, he said, was able to cut only 3.9 seconds off his previous mark...
...where was that? That was where the last Foreign Ministers' Conference broke up eight months ago in London, angry and in almost complete disagreement between Russia and the West. To return to that ill-fated council table might be a proper and necessary step, but it would not be an occasion for ringing bells to herald peace or springing the doves for joyous flutterings...