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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outcome was in doubt until the ninth inning when Cherry reached first on an error by second baseman John Rooney and advanced to third on Turco's single to right. With two out, Dan DeMichele broke a five game hitting slump with a run-scoring single to left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kalinowski Holds Princeton Team To Six Hits as Harvard Wins, 3-1 | 5/5/1969 | See Source »

CHARLES DE GAULLE'S lifelong romance with France seemed finally ended. And it was Marianne herself who broke off the affair. De Gaulle always knew that he was dealing with a woman both fickle and domineering. "The emotional side of me," he once wrote, "tends to imagine France, like the princess in the stories or the Madonna in the frescoes, as dedicated to an exalted and exceptional destiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The End of The Affair | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

Karami decreed a state of emergency, and the army slapped a curfew on seven Lebanese cities where disturbances had occurred. The casualty toll rose to 17 dead and 150 wounded as demonstrations broke out anew, and both pro-and anti-fedayeen forces pressed the Premier to take a stand. "The government can not take any side without splitting the country," said Karami, abruptly submitting his resignation. That presented President Charles Helou with the task of finding someone to form a government of "national unity" to end the unrest. But the only way to accomplish that would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Lesson in Lebanon | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

...interference with the ongoing business of putting on plays. Some months ago, I stood on the stage of Washington's scrubbed and refurbished Ford's theatre, and indulged myself in a rather banal reflection on the impossibility of playing comedy in the house where a hack Shakespearean once broke...

Author: By Peter Jaszi, AT THE LOEB MAY 2-4, 7-10 | Title: Much Ado About Nothing | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

...existential choice to completely break with his past. Ferdinand becomes Pierrot Le Fou. He acts. He grabs a huge chunk of cake, flings it at the Beautiful People, and bolts out the door into a world of ecstasy and destruction. Like a desperate gambler, he is going for broke. As with Michael Poiccard in Breathless, it is all or nothing...

Author: By Theodore Sedgwick, AT THE ORSON WELLES | Title: Pierrot Le Fou | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

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