Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first, picketing was peaceful. Then, after pickets broke up a back-to-work movement, Univis got a court order re stricting picketing. Later, nine men & women were fined for violence, two of them given jail sentences. The U.E. local and international were fined $250 apiece...
Next day, in a crowded, angry House of Commons, the storm broke. Though yellow linen blinds shaded the open windows, the atmosphere was like a, hothouse. Majority Leader Herbert Morrison took off his spectacles to wipe his eyes and forehead. Spruce David Eccles on the Tory bench discreetly eased his tie. Cripps looked comfortable and unperturbed when he described the plan in a short statement. Twenty M.P.s leaped up to cross-examine...
Three days later, at his own favorite distance-5,000 meters-he finished two-tenths of a second behind Belgium's Gaston Reiff. Both Reiff and Zatopek broke the previous Olympic record...
...became a Roman Catholic convert just before the trial began) testified that he had refused his victims religious assistance "because we were pressed for time, and I know that people who are about to be executed always indulge in talking to the minister." At this the maddened courtroom audience, broke into howls of "Schweinehund!", and surged forward towards Kappler's bench. A muscle danced in his jaw and the saber scar on his left cheek blazed crimson as carabinieri forced the crowd back...
...director, Griffith hit the picture business like a tornado. Before he walked on the set, motion pictures had been, in actuality, static. At a respectful distance, the camera snapped a series of whole scenes, clustered in the groupings of the stage play. Griffith broke up the pose. He rammed his camera into the middle of the action. He took closeups, crosscuts, angle shots and dissolves. His camera was alive, picking off shots; then he built the shots into sequences, the sequences into tense, swift narrative. For the first time the movies had a man who realized that while a theater...