Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VOICE THROUGH A CLOUD, by Denton Welch. A brilliant, terrible, autobiographical novel recapitulates the story of the tragic auto accident that broke Author Welch's body but gave him the clarity of a man seeing life for the last time...
...civil rights rally at a shopping center in a predominantly Negro neighborhood. When hundreds of Negro youths began pegging rocks, beer cans and bottles at nine policemen who were keeping an eye on them, a phalanx of 48 other policemen stationed near by because of rumors of trouble quickly broke up the crowd from behind gladiatorlike shields, arresting 22 youths...
...real name, but a pseudonym supplied by the Omaha World-Herald, which first broke his story...
...stopping place for every prominent and noble art lover of the age. While they proclaimed the era "il seicento de Cristina" she peeked and listened through a window concealed in the ceiling of her painting gallery. And when she died at the age of 61, Pope Innocent XI broke precedent by having her buried in a Vatican vault. As her death mask, disinterred last year, revealed, she remained cold, proud and regal...
...music emphasized those places in which there was a definite sense of increasing tension followed by release. This was particularly evident in the first movement, and less so in the second and third. The overall performance was in every was satisfactory despite a mechanical flaw (a string broke) in David Soyer's cello...