Word: broking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frauds and charlatans. This leaves little more than a small lunatic fringe in defense of the cults; Mark Lane, famous for conjuring conspiracies and playing games with committees attempting real investigations into recent U.S. political assassinations, was busy defending Jim Jones of the People's Temple when all hell broke loose in Guyana...
Civility was dealt a further crippling blow by what the author Tom Wolfe calls "The 'Me' Decade." The social crusades of the '60s (the civil rights movement, the antiwar campaign, the counterculture) broke up a lot of institutional furniture but left little to replace it in the mid-'70s except intense, aggressive self-regard. People went to classes to learn what frequently turned out to be bad manners, the assertiveness training courses that held that you have to be pushy to get what you want. Manners were not the message of Robert Ringer's 1977 bestseller, Looking...
Less than a minute into the third, after Lau twice stopped Dave Stoyanovich (Steve's brother) on the doorstep, right winger Gene Purdy brought the Crimson to within one as he broke in alone off a fine feed from Bob McDonald, swerved left and backhanded the puck past all-ECAC netminder Ian Harrison...
...icemen from Troy broke through in the second period for another two-goal outburst. RPI grabbed a 3-2 lead at 9:04 on a goal by junior right winger Ronn Tomassoni. A Crimson defensive lapse gave the Engineers their fourth goal less than two minutes later. Slack, in control of the puck behind the Harvard net, spotted Pete DeCenzo completely unguarded in the slot. DeCenzo didn't hesitate in rapping Slack's set-up past Lau's left side...
Malcolm Cooper, another all-American, broke his own 50-yd. freestyle pool record with a time...