Word: broking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passengers began to mutiny. More than 100 of them drew up a petition to the state attorney general demanding refunds. Leonard Lansburgh, one of the ship's owners, tried to pacify the passengers by announcing that drinks were on the house. It hardly helped. Fistfights and swearing matches broke out. One drunken man took a swing at a woman purser, who thereupon screamed into the p.a. system, "Emergency! Emergency!" By then, the crew-including Greeks, Jamaicans and Koreans, who had difficulty communicating both with one another and with the guests-began to protest too. One maitre d' fled...
...make its feelings forcefully plain, Israel sent eight Kfir fighters screaming in over Beirut. The low-flying jets broke the sound barrier, shattering windows and creating panic. The overflight was clearly intended as a warning to the Syrians by the Israelis, who also strengthened their positions along the Golan Heights and their border with Lebanon. Declared Major General Shlomo Gazit, chief of Israeli military intelligence: "Israel will not watch peacefully the Christian massacre in Beirut." In response, the Syrian air force went on alert, and Damascus rushed armored units of its own to the Golan Heights, where its usual three...
Blaming South Yemen for the murder, North Yemen immediately broke off relations. President Robaye Ah', however, had nothing to do with the assassination. The man behind the bomb, Western and Arab observers suspect, may have been Robaye Ali's longtime rival, Abdel Fattah Ismail, 38, an ardently pro-Soviet member of South Yemen's Presidential Council...
...streets ..." he declared, "and which one day might strike my mother or my family. I believe in justice but I will defend my mother before justice." The famous phrase caused Camus to be mocked for 20 years by leftist intellectuals who uncritically backed the Algerian revolutionaries. He broke with his friend Jean-Paul Sartre when the philosopher tried to suppress news of Stalin's gulag...
...experience, the only thing you can quit cold turkey is cold turkey." She notes how hard it is for parents to write newsy letters to their mature offspring: "It's too bad that the kid isn't interested in your bronchitis or the fact that the Chevy broke down on the Triborough Bridge and had to be towed home...