Word: brooking
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...beggar slams his soft young head against the hard stone. He knocks more sense into the boy than he intended to. At the first chance, Lazarillo slyly stands the old blind brute in front of a stone column, tells him he is standing at the edge of a narrow brook...
...chocolate makers have become the biggest spenders and the most aggressive marketers. Last year they won 51% of the market, to outsell the makers of traditional British toffee for the first time. Ads for chocolates look like U.S. cigarette commercials; the bosomy blonde, blossoming bower and babbling brook that spell menthol smokes for conditioned U.S. audiences are in England frequently a backdrop for a chocolate bar. "I like plain, simple things," coos one unidentified model in the ads. "Plain chinchillas. Simple sables. And plain chocolate." This kind of talk seems to suit plain old Cadbury's and Rowntree...
...Affront. He supplied his own answer: Powell's great expansion of committee staff and committee travel. Ash brook said that before Powell, the staff had consisted of four Republicans and twelve Democrats. Now it had "35 or 40" Democrats and just two Republicans. At the same time, he said, the Republicans were "harassed" with "persistent demands" that they give up their minority suite. And, although the committee "would seem to have less reason to travel than most other committees," it had become "one of the most freely traveling groups in the entire Congress." About half of that travel, said...
...Thomson," reported London's Sunday Express stiffly, had been to Moscow and had talked to the Soviet Premier. That was about all Lord Beaver-brook's Express cared to report. The Sunday Observer and the Sunday Telegraph were equally vague, identifying Thomson merely as "the Canadian newspaper proprietor." Only in the London Sunday Times did Thomson get the full treatment, and a little more besides. No wonder. The Sunday Times is Roy Thomson's own paper...
...Senate, Republicans put up Vermont's George Aiken for president pro tempore. In nominating Aiken, G.O.P. Leader Everett Dirksen noted that the Vermonter's middle name is David. Cried Ev: "I am confident that he will be like his namesake, David of old, who reached into the brook of Elah, and there found smooth stones for his slingshot with which to humble Goliath. In the same spirit, George Aiken will reach into the brook...