Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daley may have the support of some elements in Chicago, but there are those who cannot forget his "shoot to kill" order, the problem of police harassment in black neighborhoods, and the incidents in April, when the police broke up an orderly peace demonstration and many people were Maced and clubbed, including newsmen and bystanders. There seems to be a pattern here that, unfortunately for the mayor, cannot entirely be blamed on "outside agitators...
...politics were far from the minds of yesterday's crowd, which broke up slowly as the amateur bagpipers and drummers--who during the week come down to earth to be truckdrivers and lawyers--made their way to the Quincy House roof to ward off any lingering banshees...
Meantime, the lack of political parties has hamstrung the parliament. It wastes much time debating such weighty measures as whether Afghan women should be prohibited from going abroad unchaperoned. Debate on a proposed Afghan-Polish cultural exchange broke up in confusion when a back-country member of parliament angrily shouted: "I know what a cultural agreement means. It means Afghan women dancing naked in the streets of Warsaw...
...sizzler. The third-place finisher, Stanford Graduate Larry Questad, tied Tommie Smith's world mark of 20 sec. flat. Smith himself, who finished second, was clocked in 19.9 sec. The winner: New York's John Carlos, who turns on for races by listening to soul music. He broke the tape in 19.7 sec.-a full .3 sec. off Smith's old record...
...last week to support the pound sterling. They agreed to give Britain $2 billion of stand-by credit. This time, however, Britain's creditors insisted on tough new terms to correct the anomaly of a country that seeks to retain prestige as an international banker while remaining perennially broke. The outcome was a plan to reduce-and perhaps gradually end -the pound's function as one of the world's two reserve currencies...