Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Half a Loaf. In Honolulu, an aspiring safecracker broke into the Branfleet Sportswear Store, worked long & hard over the safe, finally gave up, turned his attention to a piggy bank, departed with two bits...
...applauded. A silk-stocking audience in Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel broke into a noontime speech 25 times in 35 minutes. He was also cheered, though more perfunctorily, by Republicans in San Francisco and Reno, and greeted heartily by party members in Las Vegas and at Hoover and Shasta dams...
...through New England in a revival of the Glidden Tour (an annual road race for horseless carriages which Financier Charles Glidden established in 1905 to popularize automobiling). The driver most in need of a horse: William E. Swigart Jr. of Huntingdon, Pa., whose 1908 Ford blew a piston head, broke a timing gear, contracted radiator leaks and collapse of the spark coil, and had seven flat tires before he got to the Hartford starting line...
...famous retreat into Shensi (1934-35), Liu negotiated with savage Lolo chieftains to give the Communists safe passage through their forests. To seal their agreement, Liu and the Lolos' high chieftain drank newly killed chicken's blood. They swore, in this ancient feudal ceremony, that whoever broke the agreement would end up like the chicken...
Last week, while Nationalist forces slogged on doggedly toward the seaport of Chefoo, Liu Po-cheng broke loose...