Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tail-walked through the entire fleet of boats. At one point, he jumped so close to my boat that he threw barrels of water into our faces and darned near drowned us. We fought him for eight hours until he straightened a 14/0 hook into a hatpin and broke off. I would guess that he weighed at least...
...Daddy is still out there waiting. Only a day after Fishman broke the record, David Massey, another Virgin Islander, was fighting a 700-lb. blue marlin when he looked over his shoulder and saw "ten or twelve others circling the boat, including one that had to be 20 ft. long." The guesses on the weight of that fish range...
Dead Rabbits. This well-researched book provides the fullest account ever given of the bloody five days of rioting that broke out in New York City in July 1863. The troubles are usually described as "draft riots." But Author McCague, a novelist and historian (Fiddle Hill, Moguls and Iron Men), makes it clear that the causes ran far deeper than rebellion against the Conscription Act. As with the riots more than a century later in Washington, Detroit and Watts, there was no single cause that provoked the poor and dispossessed. One essential difference was that the angry and resentful people...
...Expedition made relatively little progress during its last few weeks of spring travel. The soft ice slowed the dog sleds down considerably, and unfavorable ice drifting occasionally pushed them farther south than they could sled north. One sled was nearly lost when a recently refrozen "ice lead" or channel broke under the sled's weight. Frequent pressure ridges (the ice rubble, sometimes 80 feet high, that results from two large ice floes' collision) also slowed them down...
...didn't expect it to be this hot in Cambridge. And last weekend when you were coming back here, the subway broke down, and the trains only made it to Kendall, where you have never, ever been before, and you had to get on a bus there to ride into Harvard Square, and it was hot all over...