Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lion's Share. In Woodstock, Ill., husky thieves broke into Alfred Seyferth's statue factory, snitched a 300-lb. white lion...
George's first law case was against a railroad on behalf of a woman who tripped over an umbrella and broke her leg. George filed suit for $40,000. The railroad settled for $10-$5 for the woman, $5 for George. "I was in no mood to dicker," is George's gag line...
From the jail came a single shot. From the ridge rang a deafening volley. From everywhere all hell broke loose in the Friendly City...
Major Fateh, commanding the battalion, clamped down martial law, seized Najafi and his chief aide, and ordered them shot. But as dawn broke, Fateh's superior officer, mindful of Tudeh influence at Teheran, stayed the executions. After three tense days of negotiations, a temporary compromise was patched up and the plant reopened...
...mourners scurried away when the storm broke, but a party of naked mendicants had heard him groan and rescued him. Next morning the brother-in-law had rustled up another body to put on the pyre and finish the funeral. Shocked into amnesia, Roy had traveled and lived with the beggars for twelve years while his memory gradually returned. That was his story: now he was home...