Word: broking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frequent whistles broke up the action in the second half of the period, as referees assessed four penalties to each side. With Theran Welsh serving two minutes for holding, Wisconsin narrowed the Terrier lead to one, on a short-handed goal by Les Grauer...
...They feared that failure to accept could lead to the breakdown of their union, the end of nationwide bargaining and thus the loss of their hard-won retirement benefits. The local has 300 retirees, who have not received a pension check since January because the old retirement fund is broke; the contract would have set up a new fund. "We felt that a contract would give some guaranteed protection to the retirees for at least three years," said Emil Martin, president of the local. "We wanted to buy them three more years...
News of the attack broke in Israel just as Deputy Chief of the U.S. Mission Richard Viets delivered Anwar Sadat's reply to Premier Begin's last letter. Begin made no immediate comment about Israeli response to the terrorist attack. But at a press conference in New York before taking off for Israel, Defense Minister Weizman admitted that retaliatory air strikes in southern Lebanon were "a possibility." That, of course, has been the pattern in the past, and Israel might well seize on the provocation as an excuse to put into action a plan to knock out encampments...
Nasser's attitude changed, however, after the revolution broke out and he took his place at the helm. In 1953, when conflicts rocked the Revolutionary Command Council (to the extent of actually posing a danger to the revolution and the entire future of Egypt), I called on him at home and said...
...never got my rhythm," Evert said. "Evonne had the right idea. She broke up the pace and moved me around...