Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hard Case. In London, burglars broke into Cox and Danks, Ltd., took only small change, chalked a disgusted message on the safe: "Too tough to open...
Classics and Philosophy for the first time in over a year broke into the tally sheet with one enrollment. The Atomic Age, however, failed to provide any concentrators in Electronic Physics...
...obsessed with a desire for power? Time & again he has deliberately thrown away chances to increase his power, as when he broke with Roosevelt. Time & again he has recklessly doublecrossed and reviled the very men who could help him to power...
...legislative assemblies. As a graduate of St. Paul's and Harvard, and a man with a natural flair for festive living, he enjoys association with First Families, likes good clothes, fine horses, fine wines. Son of a rich family which lost its fortune, he is often almost broke, lives in genteel and sprightly style by doing public-relations jobs for big busi ness...
...Besson had one foot over the window sill of his Paris flat when police broke in and collared him. The raiders also found stacks of counterfeit food and clothing coupons; a rackful of fake government rubber stamps; a veritable alchemy plant and enough pieces of gold to light the eyes of Captain Kidd...