Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike the Hottentots and Bushmen, the Bantu were a powerful, well-organized society, experienced in the art of warfare. But the whites broke the back of their resistance at the battle of Blood River, and went on to establish their farms in the high veld...
...last week Federal Judge Howard Corcoran broke form and ordered HUAC to post-pone an investigation into the left fringe of the anti-war movement until a special three-judge court could hear a new ACLU suit against the committee. In the twenty-four hour period before the three-judge panel vacated Corcoran's order, Congressional reaction and in particular HUAC's decision to go ahead with hearings anyway demonstrated that a Court decision declaring HUAC's unconstitutionality would not be taken sitting down. It also seemed evident that many anti-HUAC Congressmen, assuming they exist, would give higher priority...
Before he fetched up there, Page had survived being bushwhacked by Burmese bandits, "gone dead broke seven times," sold ice cream in Bombay, taught English in Bangkok, worked in hotels everywhere, given driving lessons anywhere, and even smuggled a little opium. Once in Laos, he persuaded U.P.I, to take him on as a stringer photographer, though he had no professional experience. He soon moved to Viet Nam, turned freelancer, and has been covering the war ever since-except for a few brief vacations like the one to Singapore, where he began a motorbike ride back to Saigon through Laos, Cambodia...
...spotting hidden talent in horses that other trainers had given up on. In 1963, he invested $125,000 of Gedney Farm's money in a promising colt named Gun Boat-plus a so-so horse named Gun Bow that was thrown in to sweeten the deal. Gun Boat broke...
...market performance, stood at 81, and investors were happy about it. Last week the Dow closed at 840.53, which would have seemed astronomical to Morgan. Yet there was widespread worry because even that figure represented a 16% fall-off from a moment last February when the average briefly broke through the mystical 1,000 mark...