Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long afterward, Saigon Bureau Chief William Rademaekers put in the promised call. When the V.C. hit the city, he said, all hell broke loose within sight and sound of TIME'S villa. An M-16 rifle was in one hand, Rademaekers said, while he carried on a long-distance teletype "conversation" with Chief of Correspondents Dick Clurman. Somehow, he had to keep an eye cocked for Viet Cong, keep track of the fighting swirling through the city, and deploy his own reportorial forces...
...Crybaby. Something had to give. When Recruit Douglas Ratliff punched him in the jaw during a judo class, Johnson, who ranked first in physical fitness, struck back. No one broke up the scuffle until Johnson decked Ratliff, who took three stitches for a cut lip. Ratliff was asked to resign for breaking a strict no-fighting rule. Blasher was forced out because of his "attitude"-though he was first in the class scholastically. Impulsively, Johnson resigned in protest, charging that Blasher had been bounced because of his friendship for him. Blasher, who had spent a year on the Los Angeles...
Eleanor Thomas '69 broke a Mt. Holyoke pool record in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 1:07.3, but only managed to place third. She also finished second in the 50-yard backstroke...
...stepped over almost all of Europe and more than 700 miles into Russia when his elite Sixth Army and panzer units were sent to take Stalingrad in August 1942. As squadrons of Luftwaffe dive bombers darkened the skies above, German troops surged into the city and, toward the north, broke through to the Volga. But Stalin had issued a grim order: "Not one step backward." With their backs to the river's edge, the Russians dug in determinedly. They fought the invaders in the streets, factories and cellars for each foot of land, bombarded them from across the river...
Shaw turned in a time of 4:05.7 to come in fifth behind Sam Bair's New England record-breaking 4:01.6. The sophomore from California, who ran a 4:03.4 outdoors last summer, broke Jim Baker's weeks-old mark by two-tenths of a second...