Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...villa, Le Reposoir, in Switzerland's Pregny, King Leopold listened to the radio news on the election, broke the tension once to go swimming with Mary Liliane. He wanted to come back, but was enough of a Belgian himself not to hurry...
Planned Project. In Kansas City, Mo., the thief who broke into the Flower House took $21 worth of grass seed and a $23 lawnmower...
...thin, bushy-haired man who wore a rumpled white shirt, a badly fitting blue suit, and thick-lensed glasses. An excited whispering broke out in the courtroom as he took the stand. He was Henry Julian Wadleigh, whom Chambers had identified as a onetime member of the Communist apparatus in Washington. Though he had refused to answer questions by the House Un-American Activities Committee on the ground that he might incriminate himself, he had obviously come to court in a mood to tell...
Most prominent of the three was fiery chauvinist Subhas Chandra Bose. He came out of South Calcutta's anti-British underground to go to the presidency of the Indian National Congress in 1938; then he broke with Gandhi, joined the Japanese to fight the British, met death in a Japanese plane...
...U.C.L.A. 31, Stanford 30, Michigan State 26, Penn State 25. The day's outstanding individual performance: a 56-ft.-1½-in. heave of the shot by Yale's Jim Fuchs, who is also a pretty good halfback in season; Fuchs's toss broke the N.C.A.A. record of another footballer-shot putter, the late Al Blozis of Georgetown, by one inch...