Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tooth & Nail. In Mineola, L.I., Walter Szymkow, booked as an auto theft suspect, pulled a four-inch nail out of the station floor, bent it between his teeth, broke a brick in two, pulverized it with his fist, excused his actions by explaining that he was embarrassed, never having been arrested before...
...battle had begun in early August, when the kaoliang was still green and Communists encircled the strategic coal and railroad center. For 45 days Tatung held out against assault, until the column from Suiyuan broke the siege ring. Some 50,000 fighting men died or suffered wounds...
Actually, Connecticut was too close to scoring for comfort. On one pass play from the Crimson 12-yard marker, Christensen broke free in the end zone, only to have Ferrigno's pass go over his outstretched arms...
...impatient with anything that stood in his way. He made some bad mistakes. The police tagged him as a delinquent. Then he stole a $30 rifle, was sent off to the Colorado Industrial School for Boys at nearby Golden. There Anthony, now 14, got in trouble again: he broke the silence rule going in to supper, offered another boy his plate because he wasn't hungry himself...
Little time was wasted in extolling the public benefits of any of the curtailed projects. The meeting nearly broke up in the stamping, hurrahs and whistles which greeted Rankin's joyous reading of the news flash that Henry Wallace had been fired from the Cabinet (see cut). When the Roosevelt's mirrored walls had ceased to shake, the session resolved to reappropriate the whole caboodle when Congress meets again...