Word: broking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fellow Guests Bill Bixby, John Travolta and Barbara Eden. Or the time onstage in St. Louis when he was taking a little boy for a ride on the tops of his size 60 quadruple E tin shoes, got out of Skora's FM range, demolished the scenery and broke himself in two. Asked the boy, who was unhurt: "Can you do that again...
...Mendell, the gang last December broke into a vacant building near a police station in a seedy section of Chicago's Near North Side. With acetylene torches, they burned their way into a jewelry store next door, used an electronic device to circumvent a burglar alarm and stole more than $1 million worth of jewelry, silver and furs...
...thieves, who could have been called "the gang that couldn't think straight," belatedly decided that they had a raw deal. So at least two of them, Mendell and Garcia, broke into Accardo's house while he was in Florida. Police are not certain whether the gang recovered the loot but assume they did. Accardo did not file a complaint with the police and refused to cooperate when they learned about the burglary...
...should be publicized at all, was stung. When Begin's letter informing him of the decision arrived the next day, he rejected it. As a further sign of his fury, Sadat then ordered home the nine-man Israeli military mission that had remained in Egypt since the military talks broke off in February. Later in the week Sadat said in a speech in Alexandria that even though Begin was a "prevaricator," he wanted all Jewish people to know that he would not give up his peace initiative...
...years after the Syrians Lebanon to end its civil war, peace seems as elusive as ever. Last fighting once again broke out between Christian militiamen in the eastern of Beirut and Syrian forces, who the area with rockets, mortars and artillery in an effort to dislodge them. The Syrians have tried to stabilize the country maintaining a balance of power?initially, by moving against an insurgent Palestinian and Muslim left, more recently by attacking pro-Israeli Christians who threaten to partition the country. But for Syrian President Hafez Assad, Lebanon threatens to become a Viet Nam: by pulling his forces...