Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peking outbursts-this time by Indonesians of Chinese descent who were trying to fend off the students' attack by showing where their loyalty lay. Chanting anti-Peking slogans, 40,000 of them paraded through the city. As the demonstrators cheered them on, a mob of about 2,000 broke down the heavy gate to the Chinese Embassy and stormed into the grounds. They smashed windows, tossed books and furniture onto a bonfire in the courtyard, gulped down Chinese wine and wiped the perspiration from their faces with Chinese flags. In a new protest, Peking likened the rioters to "Hitlerite...
...cornerman, Havlicek has often been called "the best sixth man in basketball." His greatest value has been his ability to come in cold from the bench and salt away a game with a dozen quick points. He finally broke into the starting lineup against the Cincinnati Royals, with the Celtics trailing two games to one in the best-of-five semifinal playoffs. In the next two games he scored 41 points and sparked Boston to victory. Against Philadelphia in the finals, he scored 127 points, as Boston won the best-of-seven series four games to one. Chamberlain...
...When war broke out between Czarist Russia and Germany in 1914, Gabo sought refuge in neutral Norway, accompanied by Alexei and a third brother, the cubist painter Antoine Pevsner. It was there, according to Alexei, that constructivism was born. "During walks along the shores of the fjords and in the mountains, both by day and during the white nights," he has recalled, Gabo returned again and again to "questions of space and time and to a search for means of expressing them." He soon found it. In 1915 he constructed a head from intersecting planes of colored cardboard, later translated...
...pair of Radcliffe swimmers broke two pool records in the 'Cliffe's House swimming championship on Wednesday, as East House snatched every event...
...eighth inning, Navy broke a 3-3 with the deciding runs, but, they did the trick without the benefit of a single hit. Harvard starter Bob Lincoln walked the first man he faced, will pitched him to second, and then walked the next batter. Coach Norm Shepard, who had Larry Melfa warming up for much of the chilly afternoon, pulled Lincoln and called for the sidearming lefthander...