Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Captain Doug Hardin survived a fall in the last mile to take third place. Hardin's tumble had his coach and teammates momentarily worried, but his shouts to "Go on, damn it!" and his quick recovery reassured them. Both Spengler and Hardin also broke the existing course record...
...days after the Lower Saxony elections, the National Democrats' leader, Adolf von Thadden, was forced to suspend a series of scheduled party rallies after some 1,500 students broke up his first appearance on the hustings in Bonn. Shouting "Get the Nazis out of here," the students drowned out Von Thadden's speech and chased him from the podium with tear gas. But despite the setback in Lower Saxony, most forecasts predict that in next year's West German general elections, the National Democrats will win at least 40 of the Bundestag's 496 seats...
Last week's decision came after a decade-long battle in which 2,000 of the Disciples' 8,000 churches broke away. Many of the dissident congregations affiliated with the conservative Churches of Christ, which separated from the more liberal Disciples at the turn of the century. Among other things, the dispute involved the question of whether organ music in church had scriptural justification (the Disciples said...
...Henry Gibson, 32, from Philadelphia, broke into TV in the early 1960s by masquerading on talk shows as a shy, effete poet from Alabama. His portrayal was so convincing that a Birmingham newspaper ran glowing stories about him. On Laugh-In, the short, wispy-voiced comic still recites his nonsense poems, but more often is seen as the stuffy parson: "I'm all for change, but a loose-leaf Bible is going...
...meeting broke up quickly, the nostalgic plaint of one girl was barely audible. "Whither the inviolable sanctity of a girls' dormitory?" she said...