Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the last three miles, the race broke up into several smaller battles. After a brief challenge by Keith Colburn in the second mile, Royce Shaw and captain Doug Hardin were left alone in a head-to-head duel at the front. Hardin attempted to force the pace and move away in the third and fourth miles, but Shaw stayed on his shoulder tenaciously. The bearded pair fought it out evenly until Shaw put on a final burst 150 yards from the finish, sprinting away from Hardin by two seconds. Both runners eclipsed Shaw's old record...
...country." In Rio, 200 students invaded the Education Ministry offices on Flamengo Beach. They grabbed books and pieces of scenery belonging to the National Theater Conservatory and heaved the lot out of office windows. They blocked traffic and collected tolls on an ad jacent expressway. In Fortaleza, police broke up student demonstrations with what they called "family-size" nightsticks. In São Paulo, the students' midnight skulkers sprayed "UNE" in paint on sidewalks and cars...
...happened while Barnes was covering Paradise Now, a Living Theater production designed (among other things) to break down the barriers between audience and actors. During the performance, the players strip down to what Barnes describes as "skimpy yet adequate bikini-like covering." Even before they did, the barrier broke. Up stood Fellow Critic Richard Schechner, editor of the Drama Review, champion of audience participation. As Barnes tells it: "Mr. Schechner-to the everlasting glory of his profession-stripped completely, an action I had never previously observed from any of my other colleagues, although Mr. Schechner was, in fairness, wearing...
Police arrested 76 students during their three-hour occupation of the campus. Two students and three policemen were injured in small fights that broke...
...Violence broke out briefly as the police were leaving the campus. A crowd of about 600 students, blocked by police barricades from going to 8 a.m. classes, gathered around departing police and started chanting "Sieg Heil," "Free Huey," and "Pigs off campus." Ten policemen broke off and started hitting students. Two students were injured and a reporter's camera was smashed...