Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boot camp when one man broke the rules, our chief used to restrict the whole company. . . . In persuading Congress to tighten the on-the-job training law, the Veterans Administration has followed the same line, penalizing the majority in order to weed out offenses committed by a small minority...
...Iron Bars . . . In Doylestown, Pa., Prisoner Robert Henderson broke out of solitary, smashed through a steel mesh grating, broke a closely leaded window, squeezed his 170 lbs. between two iron bars, scaled a 10-ft. fence, escaped over a 32-ft. wall...
...Luis Obispo, Calif., Professor James Merson of California State Polytechnic showed a class how to crank a tractor so as not to break an arm, broke...
...they are driving for. Best-selling novelist Howard Fast (Citizen Tom Paine, The American), who writes for the Communist Daily Worker and New Masses, writes ICCASP's handouts. Jimmy Roosevelt was once its executive director for the West Coast at a reputed $25,000 a year; but he broke with the Committee over the left v. far left wrangle in California politics (TIME, July 29) and is now the chairman of the less turbulent California State Central Democratic Committee...
Toxicologists were amazed at the quantities of the drug he had absorbed and survived. Psychiatrists were sympathetic. Criminal charges were deferred while he took the cure. But François soon broke off his treatment and sought help from a doctor friend...