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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Week after week, they tumbled in startling succession. The lean and limber 19-year-old broke the world indoor records for the high hurdles five times, at distances between 50 yds. and 60 meters. His assault on the record book paused at the Millrose Games in Madison Square Garden when he could not resist proudly lifting his index finger at the tape. That gesture of triumph may have cost him another world record-he finished the 60 yds. in 6.89 sec., just .01 off his best time-but Renaldo Nehemiah has no regrets: "Up to this point, there were still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: I Am No. 1! | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Harvard stayed within range until period two, but Cortland's Nancy Owen broke the game open with two quickies. Owen took advantage of some loose play around the Crimson net 31 seconds into the stanza, then fired the puck past Nelia Worsley's glove side from about 20 feet to make the score...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Icewomen Fall to Cortland St. | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...when coaches Joe Bernal and John Walker broke out the victory cigars and champagne and started doing full gainers off the 71/2 meter diving platform, it confirmed what was becoming more apparent throughout the weekend--that after heaven knows how many undefeated seasons with no Easterns victories, the Harvard swim team had finally gone...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Swimmers Swamp Tigers at Easterns | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...Crimson splashed its way to an impressive 58-point victory in the 39th annual Eastern Seaboard Swimming and Diving Championships, its first in the 17 years that team scores have been kept at the meet. In doing so, it broke a string of six straight Easterns crowns for Bill Farley's talented Princeton brigade. Despite a rampant flu bug--that bit Harvard stars Bobby Hackett and Steve Schramm, among many others--and some incredible performances by the Tigers (most notably freestyler Andy Saltzman), Harvard amassed a total of 606 points to Princeton's 548. Army captured third place with...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Swimmers Swamp Tigers at Easterns | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Rumor has it that just as Stiles cleared the bar, John Murphy broke away from Princeton's Dan Challener in the anchor leg of the two-mile relay to secure a second-place finish for the Crimson...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Thinclads Ninth at IC4As; Stiles, Relay Team Shine | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

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