Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jack Kerouac's "barbaric yawp" broke into the American consciousness in the middle years of Eisenhower. At roughly the same time, Marlon Brando, adenoidal and inarticulately glowering, careered through adolescent daydreams astride a Harley-Davidson. From the perspective of the late '60s, the old rebellions and spontaneities seem as touchingly quaint as the shock they elicited at the time. Kerouac's vision was compounded of Buddhism, booze (of all bourgeois things) and a chaotic lowlife that he worked into exuberant underground literature. When he wrote of casual sex or marijuana, they were still exotic and forbidden fruits...
Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser expressed "dismay" that "Arab bullets were directed to the wrong target, whatever the reason." Reportedly on instructions from Premier Golda Meir, Israeli officials said nothing. Only Deputy Premier Yigal Allon broke the silence to warn that Israel would not sit on its hands if the status quo were disturbed...
Last year Harvard entered the Penn game as the only undefeated team in the Ivy League. After a sound 2-0 thrashing, the Crimson left the field ranking fourth in the Ivy standings. The Quakers also broke a Harvard ten-game unbeaten streak that morning...
Harvard attacked the Blue goal with venom after halftime, but aggressive play by Andover's coachkept the score even through the third period. With three minutes gone in the last stanza, Sideropoulos broke the deadlock when he slammed home his second goal from 12 yards out after another assist from Auritt...
...Colburn's second win in a row. He earned his first victory of the season Friday at Dartmouth when he broke the course record. Harvard ran without Roy Shaw and Tom Spengier. Shaw will be running Friday in the Big Three meet at New Haven, but Spengler will be out longer Sophomore Bob Seals is still not in top shape due to recent hip and knee injuries...