Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the second week of freshman football practice, Kalinoski broke his collarbone when a quarterback fell on top of him. Although he recovered for the baseball season, he found himself in a pitching rotation that included Ray Peters, Bob Dorwart, and George Lalich. At the fourth spot, he won three games...
...fire and oversee national elections. Many of Nixon's items had been offered earlier at the negotiating table, or hinted at privately, even during the Johnson Administration. But never before had they been put together so clearly or publicly. So far as official U.S. policy is concerned, it broke ground in three important places: the proposals for mutual troop withdrawals, the willingness to bargain on both political and military questions, and the idea of an international supervisory body...
...fatally sick and will most likely come apart in the national elections scheduled for 1972. Patil sees himself as a "ladder" between the Congress Party and such rightist groupings as the Swatantra and the Jana Sangh. He also hopes to make fruitful contact with the Praja Socialists, who broke away from the Congress Party but have never joined the leftist front because they hate Communists as much as Patil does...
...casual observer a foul was not evident. The collision of Majestic Prince with Arts and Letters as the horses broke from the gate seemed a more logical reason for claiming foul than any alleged interference on the clubhouse turn. The casual observer is unaware of the total genius of Braulio Baeza as a race rider...
...snare drummer picked up a hot shuffle; the second line cheered and lept into motion. The band broke into a riotous number called "Joe Avery's Blues" and began to march down a narrow little brick street behind the French Quarter. This was a soul neighborhood, and the people were hanging out of their sagging window sills and doorways and sitting on front porches of little splintery wooden houses. Children ran out of the alleys and into the street. The old people smiled and nodded approvingly from their rocking chairs. Scruffy little barking dogs were running all around...