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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aged women's faces, pointing towards Tennessee, looked back at me. I slouched down in the chair and tried to remember jokes my mother might have liked. Twenty-four hours. Jesus. I got claustrophobic. Twenty-four hours. I tried to stay calm. On the New Jersey Turnpike the tension broke when we passed a good-looking truck driver and one woman in back shouted, "Check it out!" The rest of the passengers hooted and waved. They were away from husbands and families and they were feeling it. I smiled. It was a high school field trip...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Flowers for Elvis | 9/22/1978 | See Source »

...pressmen have not responded to the newspapers' latest contract proposal. Talks to settle the six-week-old strike broke down last Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NYC Strike Stalemate | 9/22/1978 | See Source »

...these are work sessions, he said again, "we are bringing on the Spartan approach, frills are passe--we can only be effective if we are serious." With a click of camera shutters, the opening session of the conference broke up, the floodlights blinked off, and the ever-present reporters began to mill around and crowd the stars into corners with a whole repertoire of Proposition 13 questions...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Cost of Doing Nothing | 9/22/1978 | See Source »

Dukakis introduced the issue of health insurance and its chief advocate, Kennedy, to the front of the room. As the crowd hushed, Kennedy broke into his appeal, pointing to the illustrative charts behind him, reciting the facts and figures he has come to know cold since 1969. His voice rose and broke, and his face was pink in the TV camera floodlights, as he spilled a ballroom-full of Kennedy electricity...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Cost of Doing Nothing | 9/22/1978 | See Source »

Fistfights broke out when soldiers began to evacuate 250 members of the ultranationalist Gush Emunim movement from their camp by carrying them down the steep rocky slopes. Israeli radio reported at least fourteen injuries occurred in the raid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vance Visits Saudi Arabia; West Bank Jews Are Evicted | 9/22/1978 | See Source »

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