Word: broking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...downed Phantom pilot. In 1967 a crowd of Vietnamese villagers watched as a rope was tied around his elbows and tightened with a foot jammed into his back. A ferret-faced man the P.O.W.s nicknamed "the Rodent," seized Day's right arm and twisted until the cracked bones broke through the flesh. The bone, gaping from Day's arm like a jagged tooth, remained untreated for four months-until Day's half-dead cellmate, Navy Lieut. Commander John McCain, another torture victim, regained consciousness sufficiently to fashion, out of his own bandages and a stray bamboo stick...
Laird Guttersen, 52, an ebullient, bigboned retired Air Force colonel, remembers the day he "broke" as if it were yesterday. He had already watched his hands turn black "like German sausage" from tourniquet-tight binding; then ropes around his elbows were tightened until his shoulder blades slowly jammed into his spine. "At that moment," he remembers, "I would have thrown my kids into a fire to make it stop." Guttersen was on his knees and felt "psychically dirty, like I'd been swimming in a cesspool" and feared he might give up secrets about clandestine intelligence operations. He decided...
...charged the CIA with "a failure of judgment at the highest levels" for not trying to evacuate all of its Vietnamese agents before Saigon fell to the Communists. Snepp disclosed no secrets in his book. But by not letting it be reviewed before publication, the CIA claimed, he broke the contract he had signed when he was hired by the agency...
...time for backpacking trips or even the occasional poker game that he once enjoyed. He counts himself lucky to spend a little time on Sundays at the pool in the backyard of the Georgetown house he shares with Jordan and Presidential Pollster Pat Caddell (Kraft's marriage broke up recently after just ten months...
Rainier himself broke off a six-year liaison with a French actress named Gisele Pascal to marry Grace-a wedding boycotted by European royalty, who disapproved of the bricklayer's daughter from Philadelphia. And Caroline's grandmother Princess Charlotte-known long ago as the "Madcap Princess of Monaco"-made headlines when she ran off with an Italian physician...