Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breath of trouble came early last month when Peking radio commented acidly that both Macao and Hong Kong occupied "sacred and inviolable" territory of China. Since many of Macao's Chinese population are pro-Peking, it was possibly by design or possibly by chance that a fight broke out two weeks later on Macao's nearby island of Taipa between police and 65 leftist construction workers; amid a melee of flying fists and truncheons, at least 20 persons were injured. Macao's leftist newspapers and labor unions immediately cried "fascist" brutality, and Peking was soon warning darkly...
...gasoline and tobacco. The new political alignment made all the difference: Strauss's bill to collect an additional $375 million in revenues zipped through the Bundestag with a healthy majority. Marveled Hamburg's Die Welt: "Financial problems that the Erhard government kept putting off until it broke up over them are now settled almost overnight in lightning procedures...
...base stealer in exchange for a couple of young infielders? The best pitcher in all of baseball in 1964, for two mediocre power hitters? The man who broke Babe Ruth's home-run record, for a third baseman who couldn't make the grade with the New York Mets? The way the mighty were falling last week in baseball's trades, Mickey Mantle could wind up in Chicago any day now, in exchange for the Cubs' clubhouse...
Other treats were the play-breaking back-checking of Fredo, the gutty return of defenseman Don Grimble after a Brown stick broke his nose, and the arrival late in the second period of captain Dennis McCullough, who was named one of Michigan's two Rhodes Scholarship candidates after interviews in Detroit yesterday...
Gallagher scored on a tip-in, making it 70-65, but Harvard was spent. Steve Adelman broke the Crimson rally with two quick jump shots. Incredibly accurate from 15 feet out, Adelman killed Harvard with 32 points...