Word: broking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter acted as if a great weight had been lifted off him. Looking out of a White House window on Thursday evening, he spotted some people pressed up against the iron fence along Pennsylvania Avenue. In his shirtsleeves the President went out to see them. As the crowd broke into a verse of one of his favorite hymns, Amazing Grace, Carter climbed the fence to greet them. Friday afternoon, at a two-minute press conference, an unsmiling Carter defended his Cabinet changes as being "all constructive" and said that there would be no further firings. He added: "I need...
Only eight months ago, gold sold at $200 per oz. Last week the price of the mystical metal, which historically rises on uncertainty and lack of faith in paper money, shot up $12.45 in three days and broke the $300-per-oz. barrier. It reached a record $303.85 before settling back slightly at week's end to just below $299. But the decline could well be temporary. Says Hans-Joachim Schreiber, the chief trader of West Germany's Dresdner Bank, which has been the biggest buyer at recent U.S. Treasury gold auctions: "There are no forces working...
...Many, many people became music lovers because of Arthur Fiedler. In Europe and Asia too. He was really a genius, making a very special tie between people and music. We were great friends ...he was like a father to me," said Ozawa, who broke down while giving the tribute...
...short cut taken by mechanics in March. While they were doing routine maintenance work on the plane, they low ered engine No. 1 and its pylon, weighing a total of 18,500 Ibs., from the wing by a hydraulic forklift. Then, while the mechanics were remounting the assembly, they broke for lunch, leaving the engine and pylon suspended on the lift...
...turning up a Eurasian chorus girl whom MacArthur had discarded, and agreeing not to publish, for as long as the general lived, his love letters to her. At Eisenhower's request, correspondents had suppressed the Patton soldier slapping incident; Pearson considered Patton a warrior authoritarian and in wartime broke the story. Pearson hectored Forrestal with innuendo and false allegations while he was the nation's first Secretary of Defense; later, just before Forrestal killed himself, other reporters wrote discreetly of his nervous breakdown, but Pearson published an account of how Forrestal, at the sound of a fire alarm...