Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...danger in using the Guard was potential violence. No Rockefeller can forget the 1913-14 strike at the family-controlled Colorado Fuel and Iron Co. at Ludlow. At least 25 people, including women and children, died in the shooting and in fires that broke out after the militia intervened; the number of dead was never precisely established. Lindsay, however, stipulated that he wanted the troops to be unarmed, with local police providing security...
...state Attorney General's office. Within hours after examining the agency's books, the hawkeyes latched onto the ABAG leakage, but by then it was already too late. Truax had fled, and ABAG, which had held such glowing promise for regional planning and cooperation, was now flat broke and appeared headed for extinction...
Baker and Shaw had shared a victory in the mile earlier in the meet. Having led throughout the race, the two broke the tape together in 4:07.3. Senior Richard Howe took fourth, behind Princeton's Al Anderini...
Haggling turns to fencing when the two brothers begin to run hot words through each other in recrimination over the past. "You had a responsibility here and you walked out on it," charges Vic. "There was nothing here to betray," counters Walter, revealing that their supposedly broke father had $4,000 stashed away. In effect he accuses Vic of submitting to their father's exploitation, and tacitly suggests that the desire for self-sacrifice can be equally as corrupting as the yearning for success...
...World War II, almost everyone knows that the U.S. broke Japan's highest level "Purple Code" before Pearl Harbor. But precious few realize what the breakthrough entailed. The code was based on a rotor system-mazes of wires connecting two or more alphabetic rotors that change ciphers at every punch of a keyboard. The use of two rotors permits 676 different cipher positions; five rotors provide 11,881,376 codes...