Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negroes and prompted Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference to set up shop there. Despite promised concessions by town officials, the summer months witnessed a succession of ugly incidents. Local police wantonly assaulted a peaceable platoon of Negro pickets; sheriff's deputies broke up a civil rights fund-raising dance with tear gas. Though more than 250 of their number were arrested on various charges, the Negroes persisted in their S.C.L.C.-backed boycott of local white merchants. And when a federal court, acting last month on a Justice Department suit, ordered Grenada's Lizzie Horn...
Belated Arrests. Nor did the mayhem end when Mississippi Governor Paul Johnson, ignoring protests of several local officials, sent in 150 state troopers. Next day, a number of troopers studiously read newspapers a block away while white rowdies broke windows of four cars carrying Negro youngsters to school, chased and beat the occupants. As tension mounted, the Federal Government mercifully stepped in. At Oxford, Miss., U.S. District Judge Claude Clayton issued a restraining order warning Grenada officials to protect the Negro children or face federal contempt charges. With that, the state troopers surrounded the schools to protect Negro students, thereby...
...blood often belonged to the Red Guards themselves. As the movement spread, so did the violence. Red Guard units from Peking fought with reluctant local party leaders and on several occasions sacked party headquarters. Fights broke out over which units should go to Peking...
...that she presides serenely over London's mod fashion establishment at the mellowing age of 32, Designer Mary Quant, the grand old lady of miniskirts and hippy styles, decided that it was time to reminisce. In Quant by Quant, a precocious autobiography, she gaily details the way she broke into hot couture with her husband and business manager, Alexander Plunket Greene. "We were mad; the whole thing was hysterical," writes Mary, recalling the opening of their famous Bazaar shop in Chelsea. "The trade ignored us, they laughed at us openly." But she gives high fashion the needle right back...
Finally there was Sin Kim Dan, a delicate little North Korean lass who broke the women's records at both 400 meters and 800 meters two years ago; some time later, an overjoyed elderly gentleman in South Korea recognized Sin as the son he had lost in the war. At last week's European track-and-field championships in Budapest, I.A.A.F. officials for the first time ordered all lady contestants to undergo a physical examination to prove that they were, in fact, ladies...