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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minute later, Harvard had a chance with a corner kick, but it was headed away and the Engineers broke up field for one more goal against a thoroughly humiliated Crimson. Adding insult to injury, Michael Raphael popped in the third goal with 7 seconds left in the game...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: MIT Booters Stun Crimson in Season Opener, 3-1 | 9/21/1978 | See Source »

...elated MIT coach said after the game, "We broke out the record book and the last time we won was 1920." Actually, it was 1962, which I think was before F. Troop was ever on the air. LINESCORE Harvard...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: MIT Booters Stun Crimson in Season Opener, 3-1 | 9/21/1978 | See Source »

...Hoffa screaming, 'If you don't get out of my shit and back off of me, you'll end up like Castellito! They won't find so much as a fingernail of yours!' Jimmy yelled, 'Bullshit!' and that's when I broke them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Jimmy Hoffa's Last Ride | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...possess the character of aphorisms, translated into the sardonic, bantering idiom of immigrant Jews. "A lot you know," is the lesson Irving learns from his mother's death. When he invests in some paintings by an unknown artist who becomes famous, the novelist observes: "No one ever went broke seeing what was right in front of his nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irving's World | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...hooker was being hassled by some drunken old family man, and she started trembling when his voice broke and he called her a cocktease...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Ducks and Sex | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

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