Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insult thousands of highly trained, intelligent Air Force ground crewmen who maintain our B-52s when you suggest that Cassius Clay [Feb. 25] could learn such a skilled job. The only thing he might be able to do is blow up a tire if the air compressor broke down...
...news from Guinea that the Ghanaian ambassador and his staff were being held under house arrest during Nkrumah's visit, Ankrah broke relations with Sékou Touré. He re-established the relations Nkrumah had broken off with Britain, which returned the compliment by recognizing his regime (as did the U.S. last week). Ankrah also closed up The Redeemer's guerrilla training camps with the curt announcement that Ghana's "days of harboring political refugees to subvert other states are over." Then he ordered 900 Russian and 200 Chinese "advisers" to leave the country...
...them on the street. Unable to believe his ears, U.S. Ambassador Franklin Williams drove past the Chinese embassy to see what was going on. He found the embassy barricaded with packing boxes, and a crowd of Ghanaians standing outside. When they saw the American flag on his limousine, they broke into a cheer. In Peking, the expulsion was labeled an "atrocity." Russian Ambassador Georgi Rodionov took it somewhat more philosophically. "These things happen," he said...
...course, a landslide victory had also been forecast for Harold Wilson's Laborites 17 months ago. Instead, they barely broke 13 years of Tory rule, taking office with only a five-seat majority-a margin that now stands at a mere three. In that election, Wilson's fortunes had not been helped by his reputation as the voice of Labor's left and as a scheming opportunist. Labor's current confidence is largely the result of Wilson's emergence as something far different...
...post at Bong Son, Army Colonel Hal Moore, commander of the 1st Air Cavalry's famed 3rd Brigade (TIME, Feb. 11), found the post company waiting with a big cake and a roaring chorus of Happy Birthday. Recollecting that he'd turned 44 that day, Colonel Moore broke out a bottle of Jim Beam bourbon and warmly toasted 1) the President of the U.S., 2) victory in South Viet Nam, and 3) "the loyal, brave and great infantry soldier who has to run around tired, stinking dirty, with wet feet, under enemy fire. God bless...