Word: brakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mucurapo Stadium to compete with other island troubadours for the unofficial title of Trinidad's 1950 calypso king. A crowd of 3,000 sweating Trinidadians-black, white and East Indian-sat jampacked under the glaring lights. A steel band, hammering biscuit tins, old oil cans and brake drums, made the place hotter with ear-splitting overtures. Then judges were picked from the audience, and the calypsonians started in. Besides Attila there were old master-singers with such names as the Roaring Lion, Growling Tiger, Mighty Dictator, Small Island Pride and the Blind Sensation...
After thirty minutes of uneventful hockey the varsity sextet suddenly brake loose with three goals in less than a minute and a half and thereby provided itself with the margin of victory ever Northeastern at the Arena last night...
Today Britain is the strongest and most reliable U.S. ally, although Laborite suspicion of non-Socialist European countries acts as a brake on European economic cooperation...