Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officers left. Lady Bird Johnson decided to call it a night about the same time. But the party swung for another hour or so behind closed windows, and the other honored guest, Lynda Bird Johnson, stayed until it broke up. So did many of the other guests, who included Heart Surgeon Michael De-Bakey, Producer Josh Logan, Financier Laurance Rockefeller, and Ambassador and Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke, who will play host to Lynda when she visits Spain this summer. A Certain Kind. As it happened, that was Lynda Bird's second brush with the law during a three...
...smiling mayor" and had risen to become first secretary of Peking's Municipal Communist Party Committee and a high-ranking member of both the national party's Central Committee and the Politburo. Then two months ago, Peng suddenly dropped from public view. Last week Peking radio finally broke its silence by announcing the appointment of Li Hsueh-feng, a 60-year-old party wheel horse, as Peking party boss, replacing Peng. Almost certainly, Peng would also be booted from the Central Committee, Politburo and his mayoralty...
...where we expected the government lines to be in the darkness. We chanted 'Bao chi, bao chi [press, press], no shoot!' The reply was nervous giggles. Two sniper bullets whined by. We took cover on the edge of the road, then moved out again. Then all hell broke loose, triggered by which side it was impossible to tell...
They answered by the uncounted thousands. Phone wires were suddenly cut and roads blockaded all over the kingdom. Shooting broke out in Kampala, and bands of wild-eyed Baganda, shouting war cries and waving machetes, overturned buses and trucks at major intersections. Up the broad avenue to King Freddy's palace marched hundreds of men and women-some with babies strapped to their backs-setting gasoline fires in front of the troops who tried to stop them...
...shock of her court-appointed lawyer, Louis Renga, who had not yet arrived at her probation hearing, Nancy accepted Judge Kearney's offer of sterilization-only to be dissuaded later by her family, her doctor and a local priest. When newspapers broke the story, more than 300 citizens offered to sign a petition declaring that sterilization is hardly a cure for Nancy's problems. Calling Judge Kearney's offer "cruel and unusual punishment," Lawyer Renga also pointed out that California law specifies "reasonable" conditions for probation toward the end that "rehabilitation will be served...