Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Veiled Apprehensions. If 1970 is a year that Sato views with veiled apprehensions, 1968 is one that he awaits with eagerness. Next year will mark the centennial of the Meiji Restoration, the year that Japan broke out of its feudal, introspective cocoon and entered the real world. Since that time, the four islands of Nippon have moved from an era of swordplay and armor to one of supertankers and transistors...
Special Squares: (2) Your sandal strap broke: you must go back two squares...
Workmen hauling a rare 11th century Cambodian statue from an elevator let it fall and broke its nose. Next, a thief slipped into the museum and made off with a 19th century Japanese scroll. Then an epidemic of "bronze disease" corrosion broke out twice among the priceless Buddhas. And what's worse, the roof leaked. All that was a bit much for Millionaire Builder Avery Brundage, 79, president of the international Olympic committee and one of the world's foremost collectors of Oriental art, who donated his $30 million hoard of treasures to the city of San Francisco...
...besets the University of Oregon's Neal Steinhauer, 22, who has generated the only real excitement so far this winter. When the season started, hardly anyone gave him a second thought, although he was the world's No. 2-ranked shotputter. Last month in San Francisco, Neal broke the indoor record with a toss of 66 ft. 6¾ in. -beating Matson in the process. And two weeks ago in Portland, Ore., Steinhauer uncorked six straight puts of over 65 ft.-the longest of which traveled 67 ft. 10 in.-and broke the record again...
...Mikrophonic I, all hell broke loose: sounds resembling runaway trains, breaking glass, blasts of hot steam, foghorns and whooshing jets flashed, crashed and faded like movements in some psychedelic symphony. The effects were achieved by two men who rubbed, scratched and bashed a gong with sticks, stones, brushes and mallets, while two other roving performers picked up the sounds with hand microphones and fed them into filters where further distortions were added...