Word: broking
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...bottom fifth of the alphabetical listing, the fight was really over. After West Virginia, Nixon had 650, and Wisconsin's 30, won in that state's primary, broke through the magic number to make it 680. Wyoming added its twelve, for a first-ballot total of 692, compared with 277 for Rockefeller, 182 for Reagan and 182 sprinkled elsewhere. It was even less of a race than it seemed. Nixon had reserve votes in several favorite-son delegations that he could have called upon if necessary. Minnesota Congressman Ancher Nelsen, one of the nine whips working the floor for Nixon...
...past noon when Nixon ended the talks by observing: "Well, I think the meeting has accomplished about all that it can accomplish." Morton put in a call to Agnew. "Are you sitting down?" Morton inquired. Nixon got on the phone and broke the news. "I'm overwhelmed," said Agnew, whose stoic expression rarely admits of such a condition...
...fact, his attitude is similar to that of many first-and second-generation Americans who had to work hard for a living. Many urban programs seem to them a giveaway to the lazy, something-for-nothing. Agnew's father, a Baltimore restaurateur (the Piccadilly and the Brighton) went broke during the Depression and had to sell vegetables from the back of a truck. While many were surprised at Agnew's unyielding stance on civil disorders in April, some tip-off might have come a few weeks earlier when more than 200 students from Bowie State College, a dilapidated, predominantly Negro...
...putting considerable pressure on the Manila government to get hold of the territory. Acting for the Sultan's heirs, who live in the Philippines, the Manila government claims that the original agreement merely leased Sabah to the British instead of ceding it. Last month, talks in Bangkok broke down, and Manila threatened to withdraw its ambassador to Kuala Lumpur, a rupture that could have scuttled ASEAN as a promising vessel for Southeast Asian cooperation...
Many expected O'Neill's move to McCarthy. He broke with the Johnson Administration on the War in Vietnam last August after a major anti-war canvassing campaign (Vietnam Summer) in his district aimed specifically at him. His call for de-escalation at the time surprised his House colleagues and reportedly angered President Johnson...