Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning, La Prensa broke one of the biggest stories in months: Economic Czar Miguel Miranda was out of office, his National Economic Council was to be abolished, and his one-man dictatorial setup supplanted by a whole new financial team. That night decrees from Government Palace confirmed La Prensa's story in almost every detail...
...first the action was an inter-dorm affair. Some 50 men were battling it out purely for sport but Sergeant Toomey sensed "inherent evil" and broke it up. Several stayed in the Yard however, and began to build a snow woman. A group of Cambridge high schoolers who were wandering through the Yard made what the Harvard men felt were "impolite advances" towards their work of art and after an exchange of opinions there was violence...
Wave of Indignation. When peace broke out, François de Wendel became chairman of France's famous Comité des Forges, a sort of super lobby combining all of France's steel, iron and armament firms. He sold arms to white men, black men, yellow men. When governments opposed him, he felled them by withholding credit in his capacity as a regent of the Bank of France. When newspapers opposed him, he bought them. In the French "Who's Who," he described himself simply as "Maître de Forges" (iron master...
That night, rain dampened the Negroes' fury, but next day the rioting broke out anew. Driven from Durban's center by police and hastily mobilized army and navy units, the Zulus roared into the ring of Indian settlements surrounding the city, chanting their age-old war songs, brandishing flaming torches, iron spikes and their clublike knobkerries. Whenever an Indian was spotted by the blacks, the fierce cry "Bulala!" (Kill!) was raised...
Full Measure. In Mexico City, Mrs. Elena Morales reported to police that her husband 1) broke her left arm during a heated argument, 2) followed, when she fled to her mother's house, and broke her right...