Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thus, thanks to the failed risk taken by Yale and the subsequent gift from the men in stripes, Harvard found itself five yards away from possibly putting the game out of reach. Two plays later, Harvard broke the plane on its second straight drive as Hu barreled in from two yards out to give Harvard the 14-0 lead...
...controlled the ground game in the second half and reprised his fantastic performance in last year's Game. Hu's 177 yards surpasses his effort in last year's game by two yards. Hu also broke the Harvard record for number of carries in a game (41) and became the first Harvard back to rush for more than 3,000 career yards...
...when Whittaker Chambers, a brilliant but controversial senior editor at TIME, reluctantly appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee; one of its members was Nixon, an ambitious young California Republican. Chambers, a portly, rumpled man with a melodramatic style, had been a communist courier but broke with the party in 1938. He told the committee that among the members of a secret communist cell in Washington during the '30s was Hiss...
Still, if O.J. had been convicted according to plan, the wall of silence might well have held. It was not until the jury in last fall's civil suit found for Simpson that an outraged Yamauchi broke ranks and signed his book deal. "Two long, costly trials, and O.J. walked," the criminalist wrote. "After all our hard work, it was too much. The physical evidence we'd fabricated was massive, irrefutable. The system just didn't work...
...lead pass from Philpott, freshman Jamin Kerner broke away to the right side of the Brown net, where he roofed a deft backhander over Holowaty's left shoulder for his first collegiate goal and to give Harvard a 2-0 lead...