Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Violence broke out in India anew after Gandhi's death. Fifty were reported killed as-Gandhi admirers exacted a blood price from the Mahasabha extremists. Some dared to hope that Gandhi's injunction to abhor violence might take on added force from his martyrdom...
Eugene O'Neill, 59, skidded on a high-polished floor in his Manhattan apartment, broke his left...
...rear), but a battle against the stop watch. Dodds passed the three-quarter mark in 3:03.9, just about what he'd planned. Then, instead of running down, 29-year-old Dodds began to go even faster. His time for the Wanamaker Mile-4:05.3-broke his own world's indoor mile record by more than a second. As usual, he took only part of the credit: "I always do my best trusting in the Lord. I feel as if He's with me-I'm not out there completely alone...
...small-bore whiskey rebellion broke out this week. In defiance of President Truman's wishes (but not of any binding order) most U.S. distillers resumed normal production for the first time since Oct. 24. They had voluntarily closed down for two months, had then been limited to 50% of their normal grain consumption for another month by a temporary law which expired...
Team members knocked away at their tendencies toward over-specialization, working out of their Jackson Cabin for the first few days of the mid-term break. The practice session then officially broke up, as the entire team fanned through the Green and White Mountains to take cracks at the bevy of individual competitions that the season offers...