Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...administration. The third floor had been similarly rebuilt in 1927. But the timbers of the second floor, where Presidents and their families live, had been left unchanged - a fact which prompted Franklin Roosevelt to install a canvas chute, down which he could have plummeted to the lawn, if fire broke...
...last night boat gave up. Last week, the Manhattan press broke into a wail of nostalgia as the passing of the Day Line was announced. New York's cave dwellers felt a twinge of regret too-until they tried to remember when they had last ridden on a Day Line boat. It had been quite a while...
...What Shall We Do?" In the main battle, east of Suchow, government troops were forced to retreat. A mechanized group under General Chiu Ching-chuan (whose second in command is the Gimo's younger son, Chiang Wei-kuo) broke up a Communist attempt at encirclement, and helped other Nationalist divisions to fight their way back to the west and south. The well-watered North Kiangsu plain seethed like an ant heap with soldiers on the move, as Government Field Commander General Tu Yu-ming desperately shifted his men over rutted roads and torn-up rail tracks to establish...
...second half began, it looked as if this were to be the final score, but suddenly Kirkland, apparently marooned in midfield on fourth down, broke loose on a 50 yard pass from Willie Thompson to Bob Snow who scored. This time the extra point came on a fake kick buck lateral around...
...early blocked punt gave the green-shirted New Havenites their first score. They broke through to down the punt on the Eliot three-yard line, and drove over from there...