Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While known in Southern California as "the go-go company," Union also has picked up something of a reputation as a polluter. Only two weeks ago, the company was accused of dumping 1,500 barrels of crude into the Santa Ana River after a mud slide broke a pipeline. Twice in 1967, the company was brought up on violations of California fish and game statutes for polluting Los Angeles harbor. Indeed, its competitors complain that Union is giving the industry a bad name. After the disaster, representatives of oil companies operating rigs off Santa Barbara met quietly to decide...
...century founders of Methodism, George Fox (Jan. 13), the 17th century founder of the Society of Friends, and John Bunyan (Aug. 31), the Puritan author of The Pilgrim's Progress. All of them had their problems with the Church of England. John Wesley, himself an ordained Anglican priest, broke with the church when it refused to recognize his movement, and ordained his own ministers. Quaker Fox and his flock were hounded by church authorities for much of their lives. Bunyan spent twelve years in prison for preaching without a license...
Radcliffe recovered from this slow start brilliantly by placing first in the 200-yd. Medley Relay, with a time of 2:08.80. The team, composed of Eleanor Hobbs '69, Julie Anderson '71, Laurie Oliver '71, and Kathy Fletcher '71, broke the old New England record...
However, there remained time for one more coup, and the 'Cliffe team achieved it in taking another relay first, this time in the 200-yd. freestyle relay. With Hobbs, Fletcher, Dorothy Horns '72, and Oliver racing to a finish in 1:56.42, the team broke another New England record and reinstated Radcliffe as second in the meet...
...their willingness to try to break out of the ruts of their lives, their willingness to come to a far out, experimental place like Esalen. But something bothered him. It all seemed too easy, and two things seemed to be implicit. The first was that after each person confessed, broke down, cracked, poured out his should the others in the group should love him. The boy did not love these people. They were not his kind; he did not want to spend his life with them. He could see the horror of their lives, he felt sorry for them...