Word: broking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Catherine's is no longer quite so remote. Last week hundreds of Israeli tourists stormed the monastery and broke down the gate after the cloister's eleven frightened monks tried to lock them out. The tourists were there to celebrate Succot, a Jewish holiday commemorating the survival of the Children of Israel during their 40 years of wandering in the wilderness. The pilgrims apparently assumed that by this time next year the Sinai would again be under the control of Egypt, and they might be denied access to the site where, according to Exodus, God spoke to Moses...
John Paul II realized that with all these forces unleashed, his first public appearance as Pope demanded more than the traditional first Urbi et orbi (to the city and the world) blessing. He broke precedent by delivering a brief speech. As the crowd roared, he strode forward and gripped the balustrade pugnaciously, arms outstretched. His rugged 5 ft. 10½ in. frame, craggy high-cheekboned Slavic features and athletic posture all bespoke self-confidence and authority. "Blessed be Jesus Christ," he began in his firm, resonant baritone voice. It was a traditional Italian priestly salutation, rarely heard in recent years...
...Moscow and the capitals of Eastern Europe other than Poland, the official welcome was wary and tepid. In most Communist countries, -there was a telling hiatus of several hours before the party-lining press and radio broke the news. But Peking, which has yet to announce the U.S. moon landings, broadcast the news quickly. Most Communist organs reported the election matter of factly. Soviet Boss Leonid Brezhnev issued a belated pro forma wish for "friendship and peace between peoples...
...deadlock threatened, and as the Cardinals broke for Sunday-night dinner, talk turned to non-Italians?"like spontaneous combustion," says one participant. The germ of the Wojtyla candidacy began overnight with "a word here and a word there," according to another. On Monday morning's fifth ballot, Wojtyla got only a few votes, but they captured attention. Holland's Johannes Willebrands drew a respectable vote, and decided to withdraw in Wojtyla's favor. Wojtyla gained noticeably on the sixth ballot. Over lunch, Wojtyla was so visibly upset by the coalescing forces that his friends feared he might refuse the papacy...
Thus negotiations broke off without any agreement having been reached, and we were understandably surprised when Graham T. Allison '62, dean of the Kennedy School, announced that an agreement had in fact been concluded. We had no idea what they thought this agreement was and even less idea of what they would later claim the terms to have been. The University had already been ripping down our posters, they had betrayed their promise to let us into the ceremony, and now they had announced a non-existent agreement. The protesters were understandably angry and frustrated (an increasingly common feeling among...