Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cemetery workers broke it up, but, back on the Via Padre Ludovico da Casoria, the fight started again. There were heavy casualties from flying pots, pans and chairs. Skulls were cracked and blood flowed. At week's end six of the injured were still in hospital. The Widow Cicatiello gave up trying to make peace, took a plane back to tranquil Providence...
Ever since his great & good friends, Hitler & Mussolini, went down history's drain, Spain's Francisco Franco has suffered an international ostracism. In 1947, Argentina's Evita Perón broke into his loneliness with a spectacular visit. Last week it happened again-in double measure and double pleasure for Spain's plump dictator...
...minus 10 . . . 9 . . . 8 . . ." When he reached "5," Rosen ordered: "Fire!" A man at the control board pushed a switch, setting off the rocket's igniter. The rocket was not supposed to go off until "zero," but as Commander Murphy chanted "4 . . . 3 . . ." an enormous, fiery blast broke out from under its fins. For a fraction of a second, the rocket hesitated. For another fraction it rose slowly. Then it rose like a streak, as if an irresistible force had picked it off the earth and tossed it into the sky. Behind it trailed a jet stream mixed with...
...flight broke no record; it was not even a success. But the instruments will tell what went wrong. Later Vikings will be better...
Died. William P. Odom, 30, globe-girdling veteran flyer; in an airplane crash (his F51 Mustang went out of control at Cleveland's National Air Races); in Berea, Ohio. Odom's round-the-world flight in April 1947 (78 hrs. 55 min.) broke Howard Hughes's record; his solo global trip four months later in a converted A26 bomber (73 hrs. 5 min.) shattered Wiley Post's old solo mark; his 5,000-odd-mi. hop in 36 hours from Honolulu to Teterboro, N.J. last March set a new light-plane record...