Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McCANN LTD. LIVE AT SHELLY'S MANNE HOLE (Limelight). Infusing this album is that welcome but all-too-infrequent spirit -humor. McCann gives the injection willfully in She Broke My Heart (But I Broke Her Jaw), wittily in That Was the Freak That Was, and with downright homey good nature in How's Your Mother? For counterpoint, he gives his fans a sensitive and lyrical treatment of Young and Foolish, and a sort of half-pop, half-bop vocal on All Alone...
...because of his vague resemblance to Roberts. "Why do I have to look like him?" complained Hancock. "Why can't I look like Mario Lanza?" At Sadler's Wells Theater, Tenor Emile Belcourt was singing the title role of Offenbach's Bluebeard when police broke in with growling dogs in pursuit...
Today the tiny wool-and beef-producing nation offers so many giveaways (among them: full-pay retirement at 55) that Uruguay is all but broke. To pay its burdensome bills, the government has simply printed more money, run its foreign debt to more than $500 million, and created a galloping inflation (up 85% last year) that has triggered a string of crippling strikes and demonstrations...
...second sentence. Besides, since the maximum allowable sentence was 30 years, Patton was lucky to have gotten only 20. Patton's lawyer answered that the second trial judge's claim to have taken into account the time already served "kept a promise to the ear and broke it to the heart." He argued that the sentence received at the first trial should represent a "punishment ceiling...
...rules laid down by courts or bar associations to govern crime reporting. Their own good judgment, they insisted almost unanimously, was all that was needed. Last week the jointly owned Toledo Blade and Toledo Times, which the Ohio Bar Association had commended for quiet coverage of the Sheppard trial, broke ranks and announced the adoption of a code of ethics. "If we're going to have policies," said Blade Editor James C. MacDonald, "we'll have our own policies and not someone else's. We'll decide for ourselves...