Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Little attracted by sports until he went off to Stanford, Gardner took up swimming and broke several Pacific Coast free-style records. An English major, he dropped out for a year to try his hand at short-story writing, then returned to Stanford and switched to psychology. Before he garnered his degree he garnered a wife, a petite, dark-eyed Guatemalan girl named Aida Marroquin. When they first met, she knew practically no English and he could say nothing in Spanish but the Gettysburg Address, which he had learned in a class. They corresponded for two years while...
...century, when humanism rather than Scripture undergirded much of man's morality, it seemed as though holy wars had become a thing of the past. But the new religion of nationalism was to demand its own crusades. Clergy blessed the guns on both sides as World War I broke out and quickly degenerated into frothing fanaticism. "Kill Germans!" cried the Bishop of London. "To kill them not for the sake of killing, but to save the world, to kill the good as well as the bad, to kill the young men as well as the old ... I look upon...
...nothing has been the same around Princeton since they started putting up those shiny glass buildings that ivy doesn't grow on. They were desolated when blue jeans became acceptable attire at Old Nassau's eating clubs, and they were appalled two weeks ago when state cops broke up a ring of marijuana-smoking undergraduates. But not everything at Princeton has gone to pot. Last week Princeton's basketball team caged Harvard 90-46 for its twelfth victory in 13 games - and became the first Ivy League squad in 16 years to be ranked among the nation...
...Harvard sweated its one-point lead for only one match. Padlak broke a 2-2 deadlock with Penn's Dave Labosky in the second period with a combination reversal and predicament for four points of an eventual 8-5 victory...
Michael's powerful Indian swimmers had just mauled Harvard, 57-38, the first Crimson home loss to the Big Green in history. Dartmouth took eight firsts in 11 events, and broke six records, including one Harvard pool record...