Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro customer for getting fresh with a waitress-and the upshot was two days of violence. What began as a dispute between Negroes ended in damage to 14 shops, a few of which were white-owned; it also brought injuries to 14 of both races. Police in Erie, Pa., broke up a sidewalk crap game among Negro youths-and the result was two days of stonings and stickwork. Officials in Cincinnati, Tampa and Buffalo, where ghetto dwellers rampaged earlier this summer, nervously sought ways to avert fresh flare-ups. Racial disturbances also occurred in Plainfield, N.J., Laurel, Md., Kansas City...
Springfield Rifles. One ransacked store near Springfield Avenue yielded rifles, shotguns and pistols. Soon shots were snapping from windows and rooftops, aimed at police patrols and firemen en route to battle the dozens of blazes that broke out. Over the police radio came cries of alarm. "We're sitting ducks out here-give us the word. Let us shoot." As Molotov cocktails exploded in stores and around police cars, one radio bleated: "We're getting bombed here. What should we do?" Replied the dispatcher, laconically: "Leave...
...imposed a cease-fire on June 10. In the air over Suez, the Israelis downed seven Egyptian planes, conceded one loss themselves. On the ground, scores of Israeli and Egyptian soldiers were killed or wounded in the artillery barrages. And, for the first time since the ceasefire, scattered shooting broke out across the Israeli-Jordanian line...
...Nasser realizes, however, that he cannot coo too loudly without running the danger of being brushed aside as leader of the Arab left by someone like Boumediene. Even the most hawkish leader at the Cairo conference must have known deep down a horrifying thing: that if full-scale fighting broke out again, the Israeli army could undoubtedly occupy Cairo, Amman and Damascus within 48 hours. There would be practically nothing the weakened Arabs could do about...
Introduced in Buffalo three weeks be fore riots broke out there on June 27, the new rules worked. "The press up there did a very objective job," said William Selden, a Community Relations Service aide. "Headlines in the newspapers were hopeful rather than negative. And the 11 p.m. news broadcasts were quite restrained...