Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, the statement belongs to "Wee" Willie Keeler of the last 1890s Baltimore Orioles. Keeler's skill with the bat was legendary. His hitting streak of 44 games was a major league record until Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees broke his record...
...Andrew's parents' home and, unable to force his father's steel gun vault with a hammer and torch, stole a .38-cal. derringer, a .38-cal. snub-nose and a .357 Magnum that had been left unsecured. Then they drove to Andrew's grandfather's home and broke in through a basement door, using a crowbar. They took four handguns and three rifles, including Doug Golden's favorite, "deadly accurate" deer rifle...
...government was funding people to learn these languages. And I was broke: I was a sophomore and I'd used up all my money earned from sacking groceries in high school. I'd used up all my money and I had to find a job or some way to fund my undergraduate years. I figured everyone would sign up for Russian, but nobody would sign up for Chinese because nobody knows about it. It turns out I was one of three students in the entire state of Iowa studying Chinese and we had five teachers. It turns out I loved...
Stephanopoulos, unlike Powers and Woods, was not completely "made" by President Clinton. He was acknowledged as an intelligent strategist before the campaign and was central to the election of the President in 1992. We don't know what promises to Stephanopoulos Clinton made and then broke, but this kind of professional independence allowed him to grapple publicly with loyalty to principle where Powers and Woods knew only loyalty to person...
...broke down and cried when I stood in The Door of No Return for the first time, nearly 20 years ago. Bill Clinton will too, when Joseph Ndiaye, the 74-year-old curator, holds up a rusty set of chains and begins his matter-of-fact recital of the mundane facts about the slave trade that flourished on Goree Island for more than 200 hundred years...