Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...floor of the Senate, one day in 1951, members broke into a bitter partisan wrangle over the confirmation of Chester Bowles as Ambassador to India. At one point, Ohio's prestigious Republican Robert Taft rose to speak. "He is not a diplomatic man!" said he. "I have had a great deal of experience with him." Bob Taft's succinct characterization of Chester Bowles gets general approval despite the fact that over a period of 20 years, Bowles has plowed through a long series of jobs that generally require the soft, sure touch of tact. What he lacked...
Warfare is not in character for Laotians, a gentle people given to indolence, rice wine and frequent Buddhist festivals. But one noon last week civil war broke in the administrative capital of Vientiane, the City of Sandalwood. Tanks rolled through the streets firing in all directions. Mortar shells thudded down on hotels, embassies and shops. At a temple, 100 monks in saffron robes fluttered about like a flock of birds, seeking shelter behind big stone images of Buddha...
Good Bad Luck. Over the years Jenkins has cloaked his operations in such secrecy that an intriguing mixture of fact and legend has grown up around his empire building. Born May 18, 1878 in Shelbyville, Tenn., Jenkins showed up in Aguascalientes, Mexico in 1901, dead broke. He took a job as a railway mechanic for 50? a day. In 1906, a U.S. missionary group staked him to enough capital to launch an itinerant haberdashery business...
...bush town, job to job, while his wife (Deborah Kerr) urges him to save up, buy a farm and settle down. To keep peace, he takes a job as a "rouseabout" in a shearing shed. But as soon as he has some savings, he nicks off and goes broke in a game of two-up. So it's back to drifting, and though the life is rough as bags, the wife has to admit that she likes...
Dave Morse won the game for the Crimson with a goal in the third period. Morse's tally came at 16:37 and broke a 1-1 tie, Jim Dwinell, co-scoring leader with Morse last year, clinched the Crimson's third victory with a goal in the final minute of play...