Word: broking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eichner dropped back, visibly hurting from the killer pace of the first couple of miles, Murphy made a "wild-eyed move," spurting from third to first. "I was convinced that Reed and I could handle Wehrwein and Mearns, and I figured it would help if I broke open," Murphy said...
When she finally said, "way 'nough!" I collapsed in my seat, hands blistered and shriveled, and soaked with a combination of river water and sweat. Almost immediately we broke out the booze and paddled back to Weld--oar in one hand, beer in the other--to cheers from the crowd that remained. Only now did I notice that the 1979 Head had been the last race for my sliding seat, which cracked and lost a bolt at the finish line. Somebody was on our side. In fact, we had finished in 19'33", not particularly good for the Championship Eights...
...most turbulent reaction came from the economists. Called upon to use their science to explain one of its most unsettling real-world applications, they broke ranks in characteristic confusion, and gave the nation nothing more than a picture of academe at its worst--a group of grown men playing with charts, tables and numbers, more interested in defending their own theories and schools of thought than in helping the nation understand its economic agony...
Like Woody Allen, with whom he is sometimes compared, Brooks, 40, finds his humor in remembered pains. His parents broke up when he was very young, and he grew up as the loneliest boy in North Bergen, NJ. "You remember that kid," he says. "You probably beat him up a few times." He got attention by being funnier than anyone else around, managed to limp through school, then slide unhappily through a semester at New York University in Manhattan. He broke into television at CBS News, and then moved west in 1965. Soon after, he developed the concept for Room...
Only Cathy Flick, of Boston College, who finished third, broke Harvard's sweep of the top six places. As Hunt said after the race, "We not only won it, we killed...