Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they held the Army's lowliest rank. When they returned to their company in December after their latest trip over the hill (the second AWOL for Hill, the fourth for Jones), their commanding officer clamped them under quarters arrest at Straubing, Bavaria. Incensed at such unfeeling treatment, they broke out and vanished again. This time they had higher adventure and deeper trouble than they bargained...
...Curtain. U.S. officials were refused the right to visit them. The U.S. embassy at Prague protested repeatedly, and its protests were either ignored or evaded. Three months went by before the Czech government made a terse announcement: Hill and Jones were being held for espionage. Last week the Czechs broke their silence again with an even more chilling report. The pair had been secretly tried as spies, had been sentenced to long terms at hard labor-ten years for Jones, twelve years for Hill...
...leave from the Brazilian Senate for more than a year. But to his tiny, yellow stucco ranch house in remote southwest Rio Grande do Sul comes an endless stream of well-wishers, politicos, favor-seekers and givers of advice. Three and a half years after the revolution that broke his 15-year rule, the wily ex-dictator is again the political personage of the hour...
Kingsley finished The Patriots, 1943's Drama Critics Circle award winner, during his four years in the Army (private to lieutenant), but he was broke when he got out. He fixed that by working on a couple of scripts for M-G-M (Homecoming and Cass Timberlane), then plunged into Detective Story...
...from his mustaches: "The worst rider in the world . . . just like a sack of potatoes jouncing up & down." Not everybody agreed; his Lordship had ridden no less than 32 winners one season. But things were always happening when he rode in the National. In 1936, a rein buckle broke as he led the field to the last jump, and his mount ran right off the course. Riding Cromwell last year, he seemed to have the big race won at the canal turn; then he developed a painful crick in his neck, from an old injury, and lost his touch...