Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eleven, she joined the "Kracker Kids Kabaret" and won a small reputation as a juvenile torch singer. Then, at 14, her voice broke during an attack of laryngitis; it came out, says Vera, "slightly lower and not so noisy...
...February, forsythia bloomed on Long Island, Maryland's spring peepers started to peep, and shirtsleeved New Yorkers lay on green grass in Central Park. In violent contrast, Southern Californians shoveled snow this winter for the first time in their lives, and the stiff bodies of frozen cattle broke the blades of rotary snowplows in blizzard-bound Montana...
...Jokers. But the Long Island kept on losing money anyway, except for three war years, when it made $4.4 million. Last year, with record revenues of $52 million, it lost a record $6 million. It also stirred up a record outcry from commuters when it broke down almost completely under the winter's snow storms (TIME, Jan. 5, 1948). (One passenger, after 8½ hours aboard one stymied train, complained of claustrophobia, sued the Long Island for "false imprisonment...
Timeouts and injuries were numberless. At five minute of the first period, third line center Joe Kittredge crashed into the corner of the Yale cage, broke it loose from its moorings, and upset Eli goalie Jimmy Burns, who fell and cracked his skull first against the meandering cage and then against the ice. Burns was revived quickly but was forced to quit the game...
...hectic third period two minor fights broke out, Kittredge and Tom Moseley being the Crimson players involved, but no penalties were called. For the record no penalties being called seemed to be the order of the day in New Haven, as Yale players made copious use of the elbow as an offensive weapon and both sides engaged in aimless tripping and charging...