Word: broking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With that, Lord Carrington's face broke into a broad grin. After ten weeks of touch-and-go negotiations at London's Lancaster House, Mugabe and his fellow guerrilla leader, Joshua Nkomo, had finally accepted a British-drafted plan for a transitional period leading to new elections and legal independence for the breakaway British colony. Endorsed two weeks ago by the biracial delegation of Salisbury's Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa, the plan will go into effect as soon as final agreement is reached on a cease-fire between the warring factions. At long last...
Emmanuel Ekama and junior Chris Wilmot played exceptional games for Harvard as they continually broke up potential Yale scoring threats and covered up on mental lapses by other Crimson players...
...Three Mile Island," Wilson said, "the whole chain of commaind broke down and the result was chaos. I'm completely unconvinced that there would not be that confusion if an accident like that happened in Massachusetts...
...cadet honor committee on charges of telling a female cadet that he would like to know her better, then denying to his company executive officer that he had made the statement, which he wrongly thought violated a regulation against "fraternizing" with a plebe. His denial of the incident broke the honor code. If he decides to return to West Point, some cadets say that he will be "silenced," meaning that classmates will not speak...
...stood at a Hertz counter in Eugene, Ore., waiting to rent a car. The man who broke Norm Van Brocklin's records at the University of Oregon, who only two days earlier had set a National Football League record by passing for 300-plus yds. in four consecutive games, had to cool his heels while a clerk called the San Diego Chargers to determine if Daniel Francis Fouts was indeed one of their employees...