Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three fires were set at 11:30 p.m. last Wednesday in the incinerator room, and two others broke out in storage rooms at 2 a.m. The building was evacuated both times...
ACCORDING to Molly McDevitt, public relations director for WBAI, there was no trouble until Jan. 15 when the UFT filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission, simultaneously informing the New York Times of their action. "On Jan. 16 the storm broke," Miss McDevitt said. "Within the next few days all the people who hadn't listened to the broadcast but who read the Times Post or the Daily News were sending us hate mail and bomb threats...
...native of Bombay, India, Nayar grew up next door to the Cricket Club of India, where he taught himself to play squash while in secondary school. After receiving instruction, he broke precedent by entering the Indian Junior and Men's championships, simultaneously--and winning them both...
...City College of New York, 100 members of an organization that calls itself "The Black and Puerto Rican Student Community" angrily spurned what C.C.N.Y. President Buell G. Gallagher called "affirmative answers to all their demands," occupied the administration building, broke into Gallagher's office and sampled his private stock of liquor. Despite the provocations, C.C.N.Y. officials tried the tactic of ignoring the demonstrators, and it worked-for the moment. After four hours, the students left...
...climaxed a 13-day occupation of the school's computer center by turning it into a shambles. They started a major fire in the building, littered the street with a blizzard of blank punch cards, and, like latter-day Luddites, demolished the two computers with axes. Riot police broke through barricades and arrested 97 people, but not before the rioters had done more than $2,000,000 of damage, twice the previous record for destruction of property, which was set only last month by radicals at Tokyo University...