D.C. think tank

Usage examples of brookings.

Piezki was a lawyer in the same firm as Brookings, a little younger, and not quite the snappy dresser that the dapper A.

There were those who whispered that Brookings sucked blood to stay young, and he would always air these statements to his office and colleagues with the addendum that if he indeed sucked blood, it was only metaphorical-and could you undo that collar a bit .

She looked over to Brookings for backup, but the lawyer just gave her a "This is your shit you just stepped in, colleague" look that he'd perfected with partners in court.

They were big and dominating enough that Brookings cringed a bit at their obvious displeasure.

But this was all peripheral to the main show, which Brookings watched with horrified fascination, rifle down and ready.

It was going almost too fast to see, but Brookings, who had excellent eyesight, made out the dim outline of some kind of boomeranglike device.

Abner Brookings generally faced intelligent opponents in court, and those were not armed.

If he could make it back there, Brookings had the feeling that he could make it.

With the car slowing to a stop, he pushed open the passenger door and jumped out, a peripheral glimpse of jaws closing around the right shoulder of Abner Brookings, Esquire.

Then, after giving DuQuesne an instrument like the one he himself carried, Brookings took his leave.

The destination proved to be the residence of Brookings, the general manager of World Steel.

I could have recovered the stuff she stole from that ass Brookings inside an hour.

His assailant was shot by a bystander and has been taken to a Brookings hospital.

John Liss, a Sioux Indian from Minneapolis, was in guarded condition in a Brookings hospital.

The Brookings cops told me that Louise Liss is staying in a place downtown.