Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason. "When kids get discouraged, their reflexes aren't sharp. They run at somebody halfheartedly. That's when they get hurt. It's even worse with younger kids. If it were up to me, I would eliminate all peewee and junior high school football. If you break or damage the growth plates of the bones at that age, the boy could end up with one arm or leg shorter than the other...
...since negotiations began more than a month ago. At the White House, according to one Administration official, there was now "a sort of gnawing concern" that the talks might actually fail. In Cairo, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat gloomily remarked that he would not be astonished to see the negotiations break down...
...above all, Yale football games--or more properly,Games. They are contest that can make or break any season that have a certain magical quality to them (how elsecould an unheralded end named Ted Kennedy have earned a spot in Harvard football lore than by scoring the lone touch down in 1955's 21-7 loss...
...Sophomore year is the year to pay your dues in the Harvard football system," Poty says, "Then junior year you get your shot to make it or break...
...Diaz, Harvard's leading scorer with five goals, this game is also a family reunion of sorts. Not long into the game Diaz is likely to make a break for the net, where he will be picked up by Yale's freshman sweeper back, Michael Diaz, his brother. On the sideline, a third Diaz brother, who is applying to Harvard and Yale for next year, will be watching...