Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both scores (293.20 and 291.70) met the entry standards for participation in the NCAA qualifying meet in March. Each man needs to break the 290 barrier again during the dual season to qualify, but this seems likely since each will have at least ten more opportunities...
Even the Rockies could not break the spell. After a few days in the car, sleeping, seeing the world through glass panes, the whole experience seems less than real. Within the car is one world, anything outside is just entertainment. Rocky Mountain National Park might as well have been Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom...
...break came shortly thereafter. Even from within the car the world pressed in. There was nothing around me. No towns, no houses, no power lines--nothing blocked out the desert and sky but the edge of the road, the broken glass in the run-offs. It wasn't the American Dream, but it was an acceptable substitute: the random and the strange. Driving down 70 could not fit anymore into my easy categories--the images flowing past my windshield demanded my attention. The television mode with its comforting torpor collapsed in the face of scenes no screen could capture...
Norma Barton, one of the many versatile Crimson freshmen, qualified for the Easterns and set a new Harvard record with a 59.50 in the 100-meter butterfly. She is the first Harvard woman ever to break the one-minute mark in that event...
...tailored to the requirements of Editor George Horace Lorimer, grafting on happy endings when needed and making sure that there was plenty of boy-girl interest. He stayed clear of the literary world and regarded himself simply as an entertainer. When he encountered critical snobbery, as he began to break free of the golden chains of the magazines, he took to posing, says Biographer Bell, as an unenlightened middle brow. After meeting John Dos Passes in the 1950s, he reported that he was "a nice guy but hard for me to talk to, due to my mental limitations...