Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brought home overpriced hamburger as proudly as if they had the Hope Diamond tied up in a pickle carton. There were other millions who got mad, concluded 1) that they were living in an immoral age; 2) that somebody was to blame; and 3) that they were rapidly going broke. But if they got ugly with the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker they ended up eating eggplant. To get the goods you had to smile, smile, smile...
...clock he had discovered over an inch of water on the floor coming from a faucet in the secretary's private shower room. He said it had clearly been running all night. "Same educated person went in to turn on the water after the city water main broke," he commented...
Hannah Szenesh came to Palestine from Hungary as a child. She became a member of a collective Sdot Yam, located near the ruins of ancient Ceasarea. When war broke out, Hannah Szenesh volunteered for special service in Hungary and enrolled as a parachutist. She was trained by the British. Hannah was to make contact with Jewish members of the Hungarian resistance movement and relay certain Allied Command instructions to them. She was caught, tortured, and finally shot by a firing squad. Hannah Szenesh was a member of Haganah...
...months now the Crimson has been without a basketball coach and for two months now rumors and premature announcements concerning his identity have appeared in the sports columns. Yesterday a Boston paper broke the story that Bill Barclay, a three-sports mentor from the Middle West, will succeed Floyd Stahl as coach of the Crimson five. William J. ingham '06, head of the H.A.A. could not be reached last night for confirmation...
...maritime strike, narrowly averted in June, broke out three months later and developments by mid-September included all but one of these...