Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, he charged, the cop dragged him out of the car, took him to the nearest station (leaving his wife sitting in the car), belted him around the head, broke his glasses, and had him heaved, bleeding, into the cooler...
...snoek face to face," said Food Minister John Strachey, announcing the purchase, "so I can't tell you much about it except that it's four feet long and slender." But the dictionary defined snoek as a form of barracuda, and Strachey's press conference broke up under the firm impression that snoek was a maritime menace. A Daily Mail headline promptly labeled the snoek as the "Tiger of the Seas...
...raid broke up an impromptu rehearsal of a Crusader version of "Carry me back to Old Virginuy," composed for today's Stadium clash. After the second "bombing run" the aircraft disappeared into the sun leaving 2000 papers to the attention of the Crusader fans and refuse collectors...
...fleeing 17-year-old reform school parolee, with two Metropolitan District policemen firing in the air a few yards behind him, broke up Business School tranquility at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, climaxing a three-mile auto and foot pursuit in front of Chase Hall...
...Barclay Acheson, director of the Reader's Digest's International Editions, started for Stockholm to set up a Swedish-language edition. En route, his flying boat crashed on the take-off from Botwood, Newfoundland, and broke in half. The front half sank immediately. Acheson was saved only because he had stepped to the rear of the plane for a smoke just before the crash. This half stayed afloat long enough for him to be rescued. He took up his interrupted trip a week or so later...