Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howling and shouting, the mob boiled down La Paz' cobbled streets to the jail. There they broke in, seized Jorge Eguino and José Escobar, the Villarroel police chiefs held since July for trial. These were the men who had admitted directing the massacre of scores of oppositionist leaders at Oruro in November 1944. Both were dragged twelve blocks to the plaza's lampposts. Escobar was probably dead before he got there, but they hanged him anyway...
George VI suffered a nasty little dig from the underworld. Style-conscious burglars broke into a London tailor shop where a suit of the King's hung, departed with four choices of their own, but the King's was not among them. The snooted suit: a dark blue lounge model...
...Rayburn, Speaker of the House of Representatives, prepared to call it a summer and crawl back to Washington from his Texas ranch. It was better this year than last, when he broke an arm trying to catch one of his cows. Now the lucky statesman was suffering only from bee stings-four on one foot, from a bee in his boot...
...Mahout broke well and closely followed Alamond and School Tie for a quarter of a mile - to his favorite spot near the little stable road. There he stopped being conventional. Bolting towards the outside rail, he dug his four feet into the loam, and neither Arcaro's bat nor his backer's prayers could move him an inch...
...praying for the Bums to win. We ask you not to give . . . St. Louis any better break than you give us. . . ." That afternoon Leo ("The Lip") Durocher used eight Dodger pitchers-a league record-in an unsuccessful attempt to beat the Phillies. Next day, star Outfielder Pete Reiser broke a leg sliding into base, while 32,000 Flatbush faithfuls groaned in intense, personal pain...