Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...textile mill which had been attacked by Moslems. Their bodies were mostly stripped and in several instances limbs had been torn from the bodies. The wife of a British textile factory manager told how a Moslem mob had attacked the Hindu and Sikh workers in another factory. When Moslems broke into the ground floor, the Sikhs slashed the throats of their own wives, and afterwards tried to fight through themselves. All were killed...
...Moreover, fire broke out for the second time in five years in the south wing of the royal couple's stately Georgian bridal home, Sunninghill Park. Ten fire companies battled the blaze from midnight until dawn, while flames shot 50 :feet into the air. By morning, when the fire was at last put out, most of the roof was burnt off, and only one wing had escaped damage...
That left Zoltan Pfeiffer, a lawyer evicted from the Smallholders, as the only anti-Communist politician of consequence in Hungary, and the Red goon squads went enthusiastically to work on Pfeiffer's Independence Party. They broke up a meeting at Szentes, 80 miles southeast of Budapest, by throwing eggs, vegetables, yellow paint and bricks. A newsman was deafened, temporarily at least, when struck on the ear by a cantaloupe...
Bare Protest. The fanatical Sons of Freedom broke away in the early 1900s from Canada's Doukhobor colony, claiming that they alone were faithful to the old Doukhobor teachings.* They became best known for their peculiar means of public protest: stripping to the buff in fair weather and foul. Religious pacifists, they refused during the war to serve even in conscientious objectors' camps. They recently concluded that a third world war was imminent, that to avoid it they must somehow placate divine anger. They also brooded enviously about the prosperity of orthodox Doukhobors. Soon, armed with gasoline tins...
...Dissenters who broke away from the Russian Orthodox Church in the mid-18th Century, held that because God dictated every man's actions, civil and religious authorities were needless. After they arrived in Canada in 1899, only the most radical among them refused to submit to Canadian civil laws. Sons of Freedom now number about 1,000 among British Columbia's 15,000 Doukhobors...