Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Buffalo's four nights of travail began with the stoning of a bus at the end of a sultry day. A rock-throwing mob quickly gathered, shots were fired by snipers, and fires soon broke out. The same violent tableau was repeated the next three nights. "One minute it's a mob," said Police Commissioner Frank Felicetta. "Next, it splits into eight gangs heading eight different ways." Yet Felicetta refused to call "it" a riot. "Rampage," he said, "is a better word." The toll: 78 injured, more than 200 arrested, at least $100,000 damage...
While the U.N. General Assembly debated the Middle East crisis last week, small-scale fighting broke out again. The action occurred along the Suez Canal, where Israeli and Egyptian forces have been staring angrily at each other ever since they agreed to cease fire. Each side apparently used halftracks and mortars, and each blamed the other for starting it. Warned an Israeli official: "I trust the Egyptians remember that we are less than 100 miles from Cairo...
...Trotsky had been deserted and renounced by some of his closest associates, including his Mexican protector and benefactor, the painter Diego Rivera. And in May, 1940, Trotsky's home was subjected to an armed-raid, apparently at the instigation of Joseph Stalin. Around 4 a.m. a group of assailants broke into Trotsky's home and pumped about 200 machine gun bullets into Trotsky's bedroom. Although the attack left him miraculously unharmed Trotsky became increasingly concerned about his own safety and the safety of his papers...
Relations between Kodak and FIGHT deteriorated, and after January 10, negotiations broke down completely. Ironically, Kodak has been a model company and set an example for the whole country in its programs to hire and train Negroes...
...pacemaking. His time at the half-1 min. 59 sec.-appeared to rule out any chance of a new record. Then Jim turned it on. With a full 600 yds. to go, he began to sprint, flashed through the last quarter in a fantastic 53.5 sec., and broke the tape at 3 min. 51.1 sec.-paring .2 sec. off his own world mark...