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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Self-Sufficient. In London, Ark., police were looking for the burglars who broke into the local garage to get tools to break into the village post office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 20, 1948 | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...Four Falls, N.B., when his car ran off the road, crashed through three posts and plunged down an embankment, Fred Murray escaped injury; when he went to telephone for help, he fell into a newly dug cellar and broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 20, 1948 | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...Reimann broke in once more: "Free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Berlin to Bonn | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

Full Bathtubs. Seldom had placid Amsterdam appeared so festive. Orange banners flew from every peaked rooftop and festooned the walls of theaters and office buildings. Orange ties and orange ribbons decked every citizen, and orange lights glittered along every road. When the sun broke through chill August clouds the Dutch said: "Het oranje zonnetje komt altijd door" (The little orange sun always comes through). As the city's population swelled from a normal 800,000 to twice that number, hotelkeepers flung mattresses in bathtubs and police considered putting deck chairs on hundreds of boats. By day and by night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Farewell--with Pink Begonias | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

President Elpido Quirino had $2,000,000 to use for the social welfare of the pesty Hukbalahaps if they behaved themselves. Instead the Huks broke out in new rebellion against the government and clashed with the army at several points north of Manila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: From the Huks to Hibok-Hibok | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

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