Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That stupid label was only a dirty political trick of the Communists and other President Calderon supporters. ... It all began in 1941, when Cortes broke off with his long supporter and follower, Dr. Calderon, who, a short time later, embarked in a complete partnership with Communists...
When the U.S. First Army hurdled the Channel and plunged into Normandy, it was Omar Bradley who was in command. The First broke the Germans' human dam at Saint-Lo. Bradley was lifted then to command of the Twelfth Army Group. Once again the spectacular Patton got the headlines and the popular applause, lancing through France with his Third Army tanks. But it was Bradley, scowling over his maps, mixing an occasional whiskey old-fashioned with orange marmalade, plodding through the churned-up battlefields of France, who held the destiny of U.S. soldiers in his steady hands...
...Dublin's private Catholic schools, church teachers carried on. One game little nun took on more than 100 extra pupils, then broke down in tears. But before week's end Dublin's Archbishop McQuaid gave the strikers his official sympathy...
Next day the Virgin rolled deeper into the Red Belt. But the tocsin had sounded. When she came to Thiais, the proletarians were gathered, several thousand strong. For Marx and Mary, fists flew, clubs thudded. Again police broke up the fray. Out of the melee they yanked six Communists, three seminarists and one priest to spend the night in jail...
...have been selected for their outstanding work on the team during the past season. Hoelzer, who broke the Freshman breaststroke record in the St. George's meet, will try for the laurels in the breaststroke while Norris is entered in the 1500-meter grind, and might possibly also swim the quarter-mile...