Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...premature publication of the Versailles Treaty in 1919 was one of the greatest scoops in the history of journalism, and more important: it resulted in the defeat of President Wilson's plans and "broke his heart." However, credit for this scoop should go to Spearman Lewis, managing editor of the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune, and not to my close and dear friend, Frazier Hunt, who died recently [Jan. 5]. Hunt was asked by Lewis to take the treaty to Chicago, and Hunt smuggled it through customs. Lewis negotiated for weeks to get the treaty, and pledged...
...suit filed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Bridgewater Superintendent Charles A. Gaughan, among others. In the petition, the state's attorney general, Eliot Richardson, charged that Wiseman invaded the inmates' privacy by photographing them nude during "skin searches" for contraband. Richardson also claimed that he broke an agreement to submit the film for review and approval and assured Bridgewater officials that Titticut was being made only for educational purposes. Instead, Wiseman showed the film at the New York Film Festival last September first. What's more, he booked it into at least two commercial theaters...
...made in Japan for the U.S.'s National Bulk Carriers, Inc., will pack an incredible 2.2 million barrels of crude oil on her route from the Persian Gulf to Ireland, via the Cape of Good Hope. By building her, at a cost of $20 million, IHI in fact broke the record it set itself in 1966 with the 209,000-ton Idemitsu Maru...
Harvard recorded the game's initial goal at 10:21 of the first period, when Garrity broke into the clear and passed to Bob Fredo, whose 20-foot shot trickled through Miller's pads and bounced into the nets...
...capitalized on one of numerous first-period opportunities as Harvard's Chris Gurry failed to clear a loose puck the side of the cage. The Golden Knights' John McLennan drove a shot past Diercks to knot the score 1-1 at 17:08. Clarkson's Luc St. Jean quickly broke the tie at 18:40 on a straightaway 10-footer...