Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tigers took the javelin and the three jumping events--though Princeton's Nat Mackey had to break a 30-year old record to win the pole vault...
Crimson captain Brain Davis couldn't break Spencer Burke's serve on the unfamiliar surface and fell in two long sets, 10-8, 6-4. John Appleby lost to Penn's Bill Powell...
...break loose, like the Chinook salmon jumping and falling backnosing up to the impossible stone and bone-rushing waterfall--raw-jawed, weak-fleshed there stopped...
...perhaps a knife" ("Central Park") and "If you take a walk at night/ carry a little silver, be prepared/ to think each shadow hides a knife or spar" ("The Vanity of Human Wishes"). The more significant parallels with Juvenal, however, lie in the Maine poems, where the wish "to break loose" is in profound tension with the wish to return to "when the universe was young" (if one takes the context of breaking loose as implying movement into the future...
...time being, the old official-reporter competition continues: the reporters trying to get the news fast, and the officials trying to use the press to their best advantage. Often, Reston explains, a reporter will break a story about a speech the President has been planning to make, and the President will change the speech to punish the reporter and retain the element of surprise. The same is true of personnel changes in the government. If it is rumored in the press that an official is to be relieved of his duties, it usually prompts the President to keep...