Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven-furlong $57,000 Vosburgh Handicap, the highest weight ever as signed by the track's handicapper in a regular stakes race. All the other horses carried 12 to 34 Ibs. less, but the Doc still turned the race into a scene from National Velvet. He broke swiftly out of the starting gate under Jockey Braulio Baeza, opened up a three-length lead in the stretch, then turned it on and charged home a full six lengths ahead of the place horse, Kissin' George...
...plays later halfback Steve Harrison swept right end, broke four tackles, and raced over the goal line for the score. Ned French added the extra point...
...propaganda arms of the Ibo and Yoruba party labelled the Hausa traitors and stooges of the British, while in the North rioting between the feuding groups broke...
...votes. Nobody knew that Tuesday night--the official returns didn't come in. But when, at 12:45 a.m., Eugene Nickerson, Nassau Country Executive, said, "I don't have the figures, but it's my understanding that we've won," the 2000 Lowenstein supporters in the room broke into hysterical, confetti-throwing cheers...
...computer is the thing that really broke the barriers for us. Working with a computer you not only have to be with it, you have to be ahead of it," says Polk President Walter Gardner, a 35-year veteran of the company and the first non-Polk to head it. Information was stored on slips of paper until the company installed its first computer ten years ago. Now, one of five computers in the firm's Cincinnati plant is a third-generation IBM 360-65 that operates seven days a week around the clock...