Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When workers broke through a wall, Sexton noticed the bones and asked Mandryk to identify them...
When workers broke through a wall, Sexton noticed the bones and asked Mandryk to identify them...
...left unextracted. (He had taken off to the pub for a beer, committing the fatal error of letting on that he'd struck, and this was overheard by the thief.) His friends identified the thief from his boot prints, said nothing, came for him the next night, broke both his arms and threw him alive down one of the thousands of abandoned mineshafts that speckle the landscape. He was never found, and probably never will be. Word of such things gets around and keeps people honest...
Anyway, Salinger broke off the relationship after less than a year. Maynard kept her mouth shut for 25 years until telling all in a memoir and then putting 14 of Salinger's love letters on the auction block. Peter Norton, a Silicon Valley tycoon, bought the letters last week for $156,000 and announced that he was going to return them to Salinger. For this, Norton has been hailed a noble do-gooder, although I think he's a bit of a killjoy, using his money to quash a nice little scandal right at the beginning of summer...
...Guards' Union was created three years agowhen the guards broke away from the custodian'sunion because they felt they were being treatedunfairly. The guards have been without a contractfor that entire period...