Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take matters into her own hands and ask out that special guy in her Chemistry or Literature section. As one friend, whom we shall call Belle in honor of her beauty, recently lamented to me, she has tried. Belle is no wallflower. After a long "marriage," her boyfriend broke up with her. In the first month following their break up, Belle estimates that she scared off at least six potential relationship candidates...
With under five minutes left in the period, Granato--younger brother of the NHL's Tony and women's Olympian Cammi--utilized his quick first stride and broke by the Harvard defense at center ice. Harvard goaltender J.R. Prestifilippo knocked away Granato's first attempt, but a second slap at the puck sent both Presto and the puck into the back...
After a first period that ended with the score even at 1-1, the Crimson gave Jonas a little breathing room in the second stanza. Freshman Graham Morrell picked up the puck in neutral ice and broke down the right wing. Driving deep beyond the goal line, Morrell dropped a pass off for a trailing Chris Bala, who knocked home a one-timer at the 1:22 mark...
...wealth of all but $5 million; Feeney abhors the list, but he let the fiction persist rather than betray his charity. Early in the year, a lawsuit over the sale by his foundation of its stake in DFS threatened to expose the scope of Feeney's giving. So he broke out of his cocoon, telling the New York Times, "Money has an attraction for some people, but nobody can wear two pairs of shoes at one time...
...actually seen it, but the pilgrims are certain it is there. "They don't have to let people see it for us to believe it," says a gnarled elder. "That's the mystery." Women, he adds, are excluded because "God made the rules for mankind and women broke them...