Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seating himself next to New York Timesman Felix Belair Jr., the President began fidgeting when he noticed that the ash on Belair's cigarette was lengthening inexorably. Ostentatiously, he reached over and dragged a stand-up ashtray to the reporter's side. Too late; the offending ash broke loose and rained onto the green carpet. Mortified, Belair quickly followed it down, kneeling to scoop it up with his notebook. As the ash disappeared into the ashtray, the President of the U.S. appeared quietly pleased...
...Wang Yu-ts'ai, who stole a pair of rubber shoes. While on a working assignment, he once ate an extra bun stuffed with meat, and the Deputy Commander fiercely shouted at him: "Who gave you permission to eat that extra bun?" Later, his old disease, epilepsy, broke out twice as a result of these emotional disturbances. Wang took his own life...
...shadowed by enmities past and lighted by amity present. Apart from a 1960 "courtesy visit" to John XXIII by Ramsey's predecessor, Geoffrey Fisher, no Archbishop of Canterbury had called on a Pope since Archbishop Arundel went to see Boniface IX in 1397, long before Henry VIII broke with Rome. Distrust of the papacy still persists strongly in Britain. Hitchhiking aboard the airliner winging Ramsey to Rome were five unwelcome ministers of Baptist and Presbyterian sects, who on arrival doffed their black jackets to expose white tunics with identical slogans: "Archbishop Ramsey -a traitor to Protestant England...
Last spring, Gerard Philipe's nine-year-old son Olivier was dangerously ill in a Paris hospital when a photographer suddenly broke into his room, started snapping photos while the terrified child hid his head under the sheet...
...suddenly after a partner's death. Bache had to weather such a crisis in 1944, when Jules S. Bache, Harold's uncle and at that time managing partner, died. Bache partners coughed up nearly $4,500,000 as heirs were paid off. The firm nearly went broke...