Search Details

Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...UMass broke loose and put together two long drives in the second stanza, but the combination of bad field position (Al MacMurray averaged 35.5 yards per punt for the Crimson) and a stingy Harvard defense inside the 30-yd. line kept the score three-zip at the half...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Crimson Gridders Zap Minutemen, 10-0 | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...team of antiterrorist specialists, equipped with submachine guns and bulletproof vests, broke open the door of apartment No. 2 and seized a stocky man clad in a pair of shorts who surrendered readily: "Yes, I am Corrado Alunni and I regard myself as a political prisoner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Bellissimo! | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...middle-aged woman named Harriet Monroe persuaded 100 fellow Chicagoans to contribute $50 apiece for five years running. Why? To underwrite a monthly magazine that would publish the best new poetry. As an investment, the project had its drawbacks. First, no one had ever gone broke underestimating America's hunger for good verse. Second, even if acceptable, bill-paying poetry was available, Harriet Monroe seemed singularly ill-equipped to find it. Her own best efforts in the field amounted to little but boosterism: "Hail to thee, fair Chicago! On thy brow/ America, thy mother, lays a crown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Little Magazine That Could | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...with a pretty goal early in the second half. Smith brought the ball down the middle and put a through pass on the foot of Keller Sarmiento to the left of the Columbia goal. He slipped one defender and fired a shot at the far post where Walter Diaz broke his shooting drought, slamming the ball home...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Booters Sizzle, Then Fizzle in OT, 3-2 | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

Mike (fake punt vs. Harvard last year) Sullivan broke for 56 yards down the left sideline at 10:29 of the second quarter for the Elis' last touchdown. Enter Yale defense...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Ivy Roundup: Favorites Fall | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

Previous | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | Next