Word: broking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...July 1976, thieves broke into President Bok's home and stole six paintings, five of which were on loan from the Fogg. The paintings were worth a total of about...
...Thieves broke into the Dana Palmer House on Quincy St. Sunday morning and stole an 18th-century Welsh grandfather clock police valued...
...broke because we're going broke, nationwide. We won't accept anything less than 100 per cent parity or we'll have to be back next year," an Alabaman said last month. One way to gain parity, farmers feel, is to keep a contingent of demonstrators in Washington until the government grants the price increase. If this does not work, many plan a more drastic move: They will plow under their fields. This, they believe, will be their most effective action: it is the last card up their sleeve...
Citizens of Clayton are proud. "They feel as though they are contributing something to the nation," says Clyde Sowers, editor and publisher of the Union County Leader. The Leader, in fact, broke new ground in anthropomorphic journalism by featuring the windmill in a regular column titled "Know Your Neighbor...
Should love and affection be superseded by legal formalities? Ashley argues that a sensibly written contract strengthens a relationship by forcing partners to think problems out in advance. One woman, he reports, agreed to stop smoking but became so distraught when she tried it that her fiancé broke off the engagement. In that case, Ashley concludes, the contractual promises helped terminate a shaky match. And, he notes, the written word has coercive power: "There is a tendency to live up to a written promise?or at least to make a real effort to do so?when one might shrug...