Word: breaking
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Both teams played with a cold, relentless fury which produced some of the supreme individual efforts in recent Harvard football history. Quarterback Larry Brown completed 16 of 29 passes for 260 yards to break Jim Kubacki's old record of 2218 career passing yards. Brown threw two touchdown passes on the day and also sashayed for 74 yards on the ground...
When I bought an air ticket at the supersaver fare last month, I got a price break because I had to reserve and pay 30 days in advance. If the airlines are now going to impose additional service cuts (e.g., restriction to the back-cabin seats, fewer and slower refreshments), then I believe an additional fare cut is in order...
...escape from home. The screening room file cabinets are filled with case histories: babies with cigarette burns on their tongues; small children whose backs have been scarred with human bite marks; innumerable children with the classic child-abuse injury: the telltale "spiral fracture," a twisting, lightning-shaped bone break caused by extreme twisting of a spindly arm. But having invoked the memory of such things. Belisle gets a measure of relief by correcting the statistical record. "Those are the most dramatic cases," he adds. "Mostly we get kids with bruises whose parents hit them too much...
Geraldine Ferraro is one of only 47 women nominated for the House and Senate this year, a startlingly small number after a decade of feminist attempts to break old stereotypes. Indeed, in 1962 there were 20 women in Congress?18 in the House and two in the Senate. But next week women will probably win only 18 seats in the House and none in the Senate. Says South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Nominee Nancy Stevenson: "If there's any movement, it's been backward...
...pressed the Carter Administration to do everything it could to help him secure the open support of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, Sadat chose to interpret the latest dispute as mainly an argument between Washington and Jerusalem over the timing of the Saunders mission. He was not anxious to break off negotiations, as he had done during the talks in Jerusalem last January. But on Friday the Egyptian government announced it would call its two top negotiators home from Washington for a weekend of consultations...