Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beginning a few weeks ago, as I walked to classes every morning I'd see myriads of silver flashes on the water. For some reason all the minnows liked to jump out of the water in the early morning, their scales catching the sun as they broke the surface. There were usually many larger fish around, too, because this stretch of the creek was the spawning area. I watched one perch for two weeks while it faithfully guarded its nest against the other fish. It was there every morning and every evening; then one day it was gone. All that...
Then the scandal broke about Erwin and a couple of other LBJ cronies who allegedly got government land with government collateral in the waning days of LBJ. The deal may actually be legitimate, but everybody has doubts about it. Erwin isn't the sort to sponsor a Geriatrics Center out of sheer goodness: (The center has never been built, and the land is still in his possession.) Anyway, Erwin's last statement to the Daily Texan was: "I'm not going to talk...
...LOOP GAROO KID says a novel can be anything it wants to be: a vaudeville show, the six o'clock news, the mumbling of wild men saddled by demons. That's a good thing to remember when you're reading Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down. because it will save you the trouble of having to come to that conclusion on your own and then wondering where to go from there. The book is a junkyard for the left-over bits and pieces of American myths that couldn't quite be worked into The System; interesting how you often learn more...
Police believe that the suspect hid in the library until after closing time on August 19, then went to the roof, climbed down the rope to a window, and broke into the Widener Room where the Bible is kept. He removed the Bible from its display case and was attempting to climb down the rope to the ground outside when he fell...
...Harvard, militant black students briefly cooperated with S.D.S. raiders in occupying the office of Dean Ernest May to protest the university's allegedly racist employment practices. The black-white alliance broke down when the white radicals insisted on holding May captive. Arguing that such a move would serve no useful purpose, the black students ushered the dean through the S.D.S. ranks and out of the building...