Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...provoke a new war in Korea." The exercise, said the Communists, was "the most wanton violation of the Korean Armistice agreement and a reckless playing with fire, threatening peace in Asia and the rest of the world." In the six days before the U.S. parachute drop, four firefights broke out in the demilitarized zone. One American was killed in the worst incident, and two U.S. troops and a South Korean soldier wounded. A U.S. helicopter evacuating the wounded crashed, killing all seven aboard. Pyongyang was making plain its annoyance at Focus Retina...
...innovation that endangered 2,500,000 of the cars in last month's G.M. recall was a cam used to regulate the engine's idling speed. It was designed in plastic, which enabled production engineers to hold down tooling costs. The trouble was that the cam broke off on some vehicles and dropped into the throttle linkage, jamming the accelerator. The company is now substituting a stronger, metal-reinforced...
Protestors said that one girl involved in organizing student support was temporized by two men who broke into her apartment. Ehrlich denied that Outlet had any connection with the incident. Employees of Outlet had in fact complained that the strikers were terrorizing non-strikers, Ehrlich said...
Later, people broke into smaller groups and followed Gagarin's advice to "meet each other and find out what the people sitting around you are thinking...
...case of Kevin Bein '70. Bein had been active in high-school gymnastics in his senior year, and he decided to come to Harvard despite its lack of facilities. As a freshman, he worked out on his own in the IAB until the rings he was swinging on broke...