Word: broke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year was the year Harvard wasn't supposed to win it all--and it didn't. Last year was the year Princeton broke the Crimson's six-year, 72-game winning streak. And last year was the year that one of the most successful teams in Harvard sports history finally yielded its champion-ship status to rival Yale...
They also broke windows of bookstores, and burned the works of Ceausescu, whose books are prominently displayed, he said...
...expensive question for the Reagans now is whether she broke any of the IRS's little rules. Tax agents have looked at thousands of official White House photos to find out what the First Lady wore and when she wore...
...last week. Their deaths sparked three days of burning and looting. Twice before in the 1980s, riots followed the acquittals of white or Hispanic police officers charged with killing blacks. As police were suiting up for more trouble, a jury of three whites, two blacks and one Hispanic broke the cycle of violence by convicting Lozano on two counts of manslaughter...
...ties fool you. Doy, as he is known to Filipinos, has chafed at being second best all these years, first to the charismatic Benigno and now to his wife. Accusing Cory of reneging on a promise to let him run the government once the two were elected, he bitterly broke off their alliance and joined the opposition in 1987. However, he has not resigned from his high office to emphasize political differences. Rather, he has stayed on as her implacable understudy, as if waiting for the star to break a leg -- or worse...