Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Niseis' record was unexcelled. In 240 combat days, the original 3,000 men and 6,000 replacements collected eight unit citations, one Medal of Honor, 3.600 Purple Hearts and a thousand other decorations. They lived up to their motto, "Go for Broke":*no less than 650 of the Purple Hearts had to be sent to next of kin (many of them in relocation centers) because the soldiers were dead. The 442nd also set an unbeatable mark for soldierly behavior; no man in the outfit had ever deserted...
...England & I." "I loathed and hated the Germans, forbade Nazi meetings and strove to rouse and train our youth for the fight I knew must come. . . . When war came and our front broke, I was left with a broken-spirited people and with a legacy of rottenness of two decades. I went into the forest and told the people to hide their weapons. ... At that time only England and I were still...
...YORK, July 18-In a last minute decision that broke up a carefully planned schedule, seven members of the United States delegation to the World Student Conference in Prague sailed for Europe Tuesday evening aboard the S. S. Brazil. With the group was S. Douglas Cater, Jr. '46, representative from the University and New England and head of the Economic Security Committee...
...South Seymour Island Service Club, the U.S. garrison faced the Ecuadorean sailors. Galápagos goats idled nearby. Then the bugler blew retreat and the U.S. flag came down on Ecuadorean soil. But the U.S. abandonment of its Galápagos outpost was more protocol than reality. Ecuador is broke. Until the Government can face either the political risks of an outright lease to the U.S. or afford to keep the bases in repair, some 100 U.S. "technicians" would stay around to help...
Reflex. In Manhattan, when detectives tracking down two hotel robbers approached Jacob Strouse, standing in an alley, he tried to jump a 6-ft. fence, broke his leg. The detectives later found he had nothing to do with the holdup...