Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When TIME President Linen told King Bhumibol that the group planned to donate a schoolhouse to Thailand, the King asked pointedly: "What size school-house?" Following a lively discussion of school costs, American Banker George Murphy finally broke the impasse by suggesting, to Bhumibol's apparent satisfaction, that the group's gift be 500,000 baht ($25,000), which the Thais could apply toward school construction of any sort they wished...
...meeting was called by William K. Shearer, 38, a mustachioed, self -described political consultant who headed Wallace's California campaign until they had a falling-out. When the two-day convention broke up, the party treasurer had managed to squeeze out only $75 in contributions. Exclaimed Shearer: "We are on the way to saving America." But about all that was accomplished, in fact, was to elect officers and give the party a title. There may be trouble getting it onto a campaign button. The name: The National Committee of Autonomous State Parties known as the American Independent Party...
Bauer's winning goal came at 3:14 of the overtime period. The swift wing grabbed a pass from center George McManama, broke in alone on Wildcat goalie Rick Metzer, and whipped a perfectly-placed backhand shot into the net for the victory...
...Cavanagh broke a two-game scoring slump at 8:32 with the first tying goal. Dave Jones slapped a low shot from the blue line and Cavanagh tapped the rebound in from the side...
Harvard's sensation Steve Krause swam a very strong race in the 1000-free, turning in a fast time of 10:27 for an easy win over Penn's Craig Delmore. A few moments later, Cahalan broke the record in the 50-free with a 21.8 clocking to better the 7-year-old mark by 0.1 seconds...