Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tommy's blood, of the Thompsons' and of their two children back in Dayton were sent to the University of Michigan hospital, where a doctor ran them through 132 heredity tests. Through the night and until late the next day the Thompsons waited. Then a detective broke the news: "The blood tests show positively that Tommy O'Neill is not your...
Anna Thompson screamed. Then she broke into tears. "I feel in my heart that God won't let me down," she sobbed. "I'm going to keep on searching...
Before leaving, the garrison of 80,000 Nationalists blew up the Pearl River bridge, damaged the city's power plant, set fire to airfield installations. Then it broke into two fleeing parts. The bulk moved into the hinterland where the Reds had not yet penetrated. A smaller group headed toward the sea and ships that would carry them to Hainan and Formosa...
Actor-Manager Maurice Evans, specialist since 1935 in such classic doublet & hose roles as Romeo, Hamlet, Richard II, Falstaff and Macbeth, broke a theatrical tradition. For The Browning Version (see THEATER), he made his first Broadway appearance in what he called "an honest-to-God pair of pants...
...beat Louisiana's bayous for likely looking lads and signed on 20 more including a hulking 280-lb. Cajun tackle named Jerome Helluin. Frnka housed his athletes in the new $250,000 athletic hall across from the Sugar Bowl, fed them rare steaks and fined them when they broke his training rules. On the strength of size, reserve strength and a fullback named Eddie Price, Tulane was ranked No. 4 in the nation...