Word: broking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After Judge Eidson made those rulings, a gunman wearing a black wig broke into the Davis mansion. He wounded Priscilla and a friend, "Bubba" Gavrel, and murdered her lover, ex-Basketball Player Stan Farr, and her daughter by a previous marriage, twelve-year-old Andrea Wilborn. Four hours later, police arrested Davis at his girlfriend's home and charged him with being the gunman...
...week's medal for coolness in a crisis goes to Ned Harris, owner of the Atlas Window Cleaning Contractors, who was plying his trade outside the 20th floor of Honolulu's Chateau Waikiki when the rope holding up his window chair broke...
Unfortunately for Israel?and for the prospects for peace in the Middle East?Arafat's pleas seemed to be falling on receptive ears. His archenemy, Abu Nidal, a onetime Fatah member who broke away to establish his own terrorist gang, sent word from Iraq that he was willing to agree to a truce with Arafat, whom he had previously accused of "treason." If the Palestinians manage to patch up their quarrels, they will be able to pay more deadly attention to the Jewish state...
...help him with his writing; eventually he married a 32-year-old Englishwoman, Edna Clarke. In 1935 he played a bit part in an Alexander Korda film, Sanders of the River, with his friend Paul Robeson. He was so deeply affected by the Italian invasion of Ethiopia that he broke through a police line to embrace Haile Selassie when the exiled Emperor arrived at Waterloo Station...
Obviously not. Churning through the pool built by Adolf Hitler for the 1936 Olympics, Caulkins won five gold medals and broke four world records in the process. Her most dramatic victory came in the 400-meter medley over former Record Holder Ulrike Tauber, 20, who won the gold medal in Montreal. The medley is the most technically demanding event in swimming, requiring mastery of four separate strokes and three different types of turns?the test of the compleat swimmer. Caulkins beat Tauber by an astonishing seven seconds, finishing nearly half a pool length in the lead. In the 200-meter...