Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cotton Mather saw evidence of ghosts, witchcraft and "dia-bolical handling" in the morally rarefied air of 17th-century Boston. He reports, "An army of devils is horribly broke in upon the place which is the center, and after a sort, the first-born of our English settlements: and the houses of the good people there are filled with the doleful shrieks of their children and servants, tormented by invisible hands, with tortures altogether preternatural." Strangely familiar? Who has not heard "doleful shrieks" through the walls of their room as reading period wanes? Who has not felt opposed...
...four Democratic legislators--State Rep. Timothy J. Toomey Jr. (D-Cambridge), who is also a Cambridge city councillor--broke with party ranks and voted to reinstate the death penalty...
This time Bala and junior Craig Adams played a little two-man hockey. With his back towards the B.C. net, Adams laid a pass off to a streaking Bala down the left side. Bala, who had already generated a head of steam, broke across the zone from left to right and faked out McLaughlin with the backhander. All of a sudden, Harvard was up 3-1 on the No. 8 team in the nation...
That set up a convenient five-on-four advantage for B.C. to begin the final stanza. And after a mere 23 seconds into the third period, Hobey Baker candidate Marty Reasoner proverbially broke Harvard's back with a critical power-play tally...
...employee of the Picante Restaurant at 735 Mass. Ave. reported that an unknown person broke the front window with a rock overnight...