Word: broking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks ago Gerald Ford suddenly broke off a speaking tour in Rochester, N.Y., to take care of his wife Betty at their new $600,000 home in Rancho Mirage, a city eleven miles from Palm Springs, Calif. She was tense and anxious, and needed his help. Soon afterward, Betty decided that she had "overmedicated" herself with a combination of painkilling drugs for arthritis and a pinched nerve in her neck...
...prepare Namibia for independence. At the same time, Pretoria placed its support behind a white-led coalition of black and white parties and tribal groups, including the Hereros. That coalition, now known as the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance,* is headed by Dirk Mudge, 49, a rich white farmer who broke last year with the Namibian branch of South Africa's ruling National Party to join forces with moderate black and colored (mixed race) groups...
Freshman Don Pompan, playing at two in his first league match ever, turned in the most amazing performance of the day as he defeated Lion David Cooper by a gnat's eyelash--that translates to 3-6, 7-6 with a 5-4 tiebreaker (ulp), and 7-5. Pompan broke Cooper's service twice to win the last four games of the match, after fighting off two match points in the second set and charging back from 3-0 and 4-1 deficits in the third...
...they were landed in fine condition, showing that they were well cared for on the steamer, not one indicating the least sign of mange, which dogs are apt to contract at sea. The hounds are of the bluest of 'blue blood,' and were personally selected by Lord Willhoughby de Broke, master of the South Warwickshire (England) Pack...
...squals broke for halftime with Harvard up 7-4, but the fireworks were soon to come. The Crimson laxmen came out gunning in the third stanza, boosting the score to 11-5 in the first six and a half minutes...