Word: broking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington, meanwhile, the Carter Administration was belatedly trying to cope with the grim prospect that one of the West's staunchest and most strategically placed allies might be on the verge of collapse. Ever since serious popular unrest first broke out in Iran last August, the Administration had been voicing its support for the Shah and its confidence that he could prevail. Scarcely a year ago, in fact, the President had been busy planning his first big overseas trip; one of its high points was an elegant New Year's Eve celebration with the Shah in Tehran. Last...
Cimino, 37, broke into movies as a writer for Clint Eastwood. After directing the promising Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, he spent four years on various scripts before joining forces with De Niro on The Deer Hunter. Here Cimino creates a portrait of the war that beggars logic and is boundless in terror. An early Viet Nam sequence, in which imprisoned Americans are forced to play Russian roulette by their Viet Cong captors, is one of the most gut-wrenching ever. With Peter Zinner's virtuoso editing, an agonizing sound track and Vilmos Zsigmond's fiery cinematography, Cimino creates...
Watson and Cochrane switched roles in their duet on the second Harvard talley at 10:28. Watson broke into the Vermont zone and forced two Cat defensemen to commit themselves before sliding the puck to J.C. streaking down the right wing. Cochrane shifted Frost out of position before springing a backhand to the low left corner...
...Crimson started strong, holding the powerful Providence squad to a two-goal edge through the first period. After falling behind 3-0, Harvard finally broke the ice 7:09 into the contest when standout center-defenseman Tania Huber capped a three-on-two break with a wrist shot that slipped just under the crossbar into the upper right corner of the net. Sara Fischer and Julie Scarr picked up assists on the play...
Over the next two years, Scott said, he had many trysts with Thorpe, at such varied locations as his Westminster office, a bathroom in a hotel in Thorpe's Devon constituency, and a London flat that Thorpe had rented for him. Before Scott broke off the relationship in 1963 ("I hated the wretched sexual thing"), Thorpe was calling him "Bunny," buying him clothes and even taking him to his elite London club, the Reform...