Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...award ceremony for a prize given by the family, and many of the family were present. After lunch, Ethel Kennedy rose to speak--something she rarely did--but her eye caught the sculpted head of her slain husband, which was the award, propped on the table. At that, she broke down in tears, but only for a moment. Seeing her falter, the entire family got up from their seats and rushed to surround her--Ted Kennedy, her children, cousins. They hugged her, and laughed and made cheerful sounds, like birds. Soon she was laughing...
...mystique of the Kennedy curse is such that even one of the clan's own members, Chris Lawford, the son of Peter Lawford and Pat Kennedy, could say once, "The Kennedy story is really about karma, about people who broke the rules and were ultimately broken by them." The story begins with the son of a Boston saloonkeeper, Joseph P. Kennedy, the founding father who became chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and ambassador to Britain. By 1957, he had also assembled a $100 million fortune, some of it in ways that were not entirely wholesome, including bootlegging during...
There were times when walking by the Oval Office, I would see John-John hopping around on the carpet with his sister Caroline, his father clapping or laughing at the display. He came by the presidential desk on Halloween as "Peter Panda," and J.F.K. broke up with laughter at the spook...
...donors cover the tab. Too clever, says Steve Forbes' team, which charges that the end run is a violation of campaign laws that prohibit individuals from giving more than $1,000 to a candidate. The Bush folks say that since the money went to the Iowa Republican Party, they broke no rules. Perhaps that kind of fiscal ingenuity is why Bush has spent only a fifth of the $37 million he has raised and why he announced he would forgo nearly $17 million in matching federal funds in exchange for not being held to campaign spending limits...
...with almost all things Kennedy, the anniversaries of man?s greatest leap have a dark side. Saturday, the day after the younger JFK went down, was the 30th anniversary of his uncle Teddy?s Chappaquiddick disaster. The scandal broke one day after Apollo 11 took off and two days before it landed; the curse shared the headlines with the triumph, as it does today. One more aquatic disaster made the news today, dredged up for reexamination ?- Gus Grissom?s capsule has been pulled from the ocean. The capsule Liberty Bell 7, which had lain in water three miles deep since...