Word: broking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Meletis, "they set you down with numbed feet on a cement floor on which cold water has been poured." But the worst torture, by his account, is electric shock treatment applied to various parts of the body, including the genitals. After four days of such torture, Meletis said, he broke down and told his interrogators what they wanted to hear...
...press played a peculiar role in encouraging this self-indulgence. It obviously considered itself unsullied by what one Harvard scholar called "the circus" in Whig Hall. And it broke into vigorous applause when Sam Brown delivered his blistering attack on the fourth day of the conference. Still, why the press was there at all was a mystery to most of the participants, and by its elaborate coverage--there were probably as many reporters as participants and the cameramen were ubiquitous--the news media admitted implicitly the importance of the people whom it ridiculed in daily copy. Most of their stories...
Benka, the team's huge amiable captain, set a new Harvard indoor record in the shot put with a 58'8 3/4" toss. But he was obviously not satisfied with his winning throw--which broke the record Benka himself set in last year's IC4A's--since he has been throwing near the 60 foot mark in practice...
...other good individual performances came from Tim McLoone, who won the two-mile in 9:15.6, and Jon Enscoe, who was barely beaten out at the finish of the mile by B.U.'s captain, Pete Hoss. Hoss broke the tape at 4:10.5 and Enscoe was less than a second behind...
Krause, who broke the Harvard 1000-yard freestyle record against Springfield on Tuesday, took firsts in the 500-yard free and the 200-yard individual medley, beating his opponent in the medley by .3 seconds. Krause also swam on the 400-yard freestyle relay team, which downed the Cadets in the final event to make the meet score more respectable...