Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Around 8 a.m. yesterday morning a subterranean window in the Science Center broke, pouring hundreds of gallons of trapped water into the Harvard Yard Mail Center...
Botosh estimated that about four feet of rainwater from Tuesday night's storm had collected in a six-by-six-foot sunken area around the window by the time the glass broke...
...Cambridge resident reports that several men broke into the house he was renovating and stole plumbing fixtures...
Although the visit had been planned before the Lewinsky scandal broke, it was a welcome boost for Clinton. It brought to town a straight-arrow friend who supported him down the line. On most big issues the two governments really do agree. Blair made it clear that British planes would go into battle with the Americans against Iraq, even if they are the only two nations willing...
...makes a poor premise for poetry. Lyric poems draw their energy from an active voice discussing the life choices, good or bad, it has made. Hughes portrays himself as a fern in a hurricane beyond his control. He gives only one poem, Dreamers, to the woman who broke up his marriage to Plath. In it he writes: "The Fable she carried/ Requisitioned you and me and her,/ Puppets for its performance." Who wants to read about puppets? Hughes' insistence that he was only "a fly outside on the window-pane/ Of my own domestic drama" rings false, whatever the irretrievable...