Word: broking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...computers broke down last night, and consequently, the campaign headquarters of many Massachusetts candidates agonized late into the night over their heroes. But Lew Crampton himself--Republican challenger for state treasurer against 14-year Democratic incumbent Robert Crane--stepped into his Harvard Club headquarters with a polite smile on his face, losing...
...while the Carter administration would rather forget Vietnam, Hanoi would welcome renewed, this-time-peaceful relations with the United States. Since talks on the normalization of U.S.-Vietnam relations broke down last December, economic setbacks and natural disasters have forced Vietnam to reconsider its demands for the resumption of diplomatic relations. Saturday the State Department announced that Hanoi had dropped its demand for reparations...
...tireless Brynteson completed the hat trick with ten minutes remaining in the first half. This time, Ferrante crossed to St. Louis near the right post. When a Brown defender broke up St. Louis, the ball squirted over to Brynteson, who slammed it home for the game's final score...
...export demand kicked off a few years of unprecedented farm prosperity. Net farm income more than doubled in three years to an unparalleled $33 billion in 1973, and soaring retail food prices combined with OPEC's oil gouging to produce double-digit inflation. In 1976 and 1977, farm prices broke; farm income shriveled to $20.5 billion in 1977, and a noisy American Agriculture Movement sprang up overnight to send farmers rumbling into Washington and state capitals aboard their tractors (some cost $30,000, and a few came with air-conditioned cabs and stereo tape decks...
...broke his truce between surrealism and abstraction. Preoccupied with "tragic and timeless" subject matter, Rothko wanted to invest the entire surface of the painting with a sense of awe, a ritualistic presence; and in groping toward this he produced some of the least satisfactory paintings of his career?vague, disconnected blots and blurs, pretty as begonias, but otherwise unremarkable. But gradually the patches coalesced, the structure firmed. His breakthrough came in 1949, with a painting named Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red, which created the formula he would explore (with variations) for the last 20 years...