Word: breen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freestyle, gazed calmly at his opponents (who included three Olympic swimmers), and hit the water as if fired from the starting pistol. Flat out, he thrashed home in 9:17.7, 1.5 sec. faster than the old world record held by the U.S.'s George Breen, who set the mark when he was 21. Konrads' furious freestyling also smashed Breen's world record for the 800 meters...
...Without casual spectators around, but with 20 stop-watch-clicking officials timing his every stroke, Buffalo's George Breen boiled through the water of Yale's 50-meter practice pool and broke his own world record for the mile (19:40.4) with a fast...
...along, sliced through the water as if a shark were snapping at his toes, set a new Olympic record in the 400-meter freestyle, helped his teammates set a world record as they took the 800-meter relay, then came back to whip New York's George Breen in the gut-wrenching 1,500-meter grind...
...Lieutenant denied that the present rash of parking tickets is aimed at Summer School students or that it is the result of pressure from the city. "We are not acting on orders from anyone," Breen said, "we are just enforcing the law." Breen's stand contradicted rumors that the City Council has ordered a parking drive...
Warning summer school students who are not familiar with the Cambridge parking regulations, Breen said that "persistent violators and those who do not respond to traffic tickets can expect to have their cars towed away." He also pointed out that the police kept the license numbers of out-of-state violators on file "for future reference...