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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Glenn's reentry into the atmosphere in a heat-seared Mercury craft in 1962, and Gus Grissom's hairbreadth escape from drowning when his Liberty Bell 7 was swamped in the Atlantic. Then came the miraculously flawless series of ten Gemini trips, in which Americans repeatedly broke all records for survival in space, strolled blithely out into that brutal environment, and navigated their craft through the incredibly delicate maneuver of tracking down and docking with another vehicle in the vast reaches of the heavens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: To Strive, To Seek, To Find, And Not To Yield . . . | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

Zone D last week felt the first warmup. Radar-controlled B-52 bombers came over in ten waves at 30,000 ft. to rain down fire on the triple-canopy jungle concealing enemy movements. They dropped magnesium incendiary bomblets, which fell first in large clusters, then broke apart at 8,000 ft. and burst into flame as they plunged into a jungle already dried tinder-brown in places by chemical defoliants. For hours afterwards, dense smoke rolled 15,000 ft. into the air above yet another portion of the Viet Cong's rapidly shrinking sanctuaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: After Their Nests | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

...settled on the Chateau Gendebien near the town of Mons. The chateau sits in a pleasant 30-acre parkland populated by pheasants and wild rabbits. Unfortunately, the house is pretty much in a state of nature, too. No one has lived there since 1959; five years ago, three vandals broke in and tore the place apart, smashing windows and yanking down chandeliers. It will take more than a year to renovate the shambles and install a few modern conveniences Mrs. Lemnitzer is likely to ask for. Unless, of course, she prefers to pump her own water in the kitchen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 27, 1967 | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

...open. Nearly 1,240 exhibitors, ranging from giants like General Electric and Westinghouse down to minor manufacturers of shower curtains and shish kebabers, had set up exhibits and were prepared to write orders from buyers converging from all parts of the country. Then, late at night, fire suddenly broke out in a booth in the main exhibition hall. Within 15 minutes, McCormick Place was an inferno; because of the intensity of the fire and its rapid spread in all directions, investigators suspected that defective electrical wiring was the cause. Eight hours later, one watchman was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conventions: The Cost of the New Chicago Fire | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

...Every athlete requires a certain level of enthusiasm to keep going as he gets older," the 23-year old senior said, "and ever since Rome, even though I broke my world record a couple of times, I've been gradually losing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmer Neville Hayes Hangs Up His Trunks | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

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