Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...novelty songs, slow songs and fast songs, Weill and Porter and Loewe and Bernstein, in addition to Gershwin and, what she said was her favorite (there's no accounting for such things), Sondheim. She strode on stage in front of the orchestra, futzed humorously with her red shawl, and broke right into "Nice Work If You Can Get It" without an awkward moment. She owned the stage -- a small stage, it's true, but she owned it nonetheless...
...Lots of Homers--Juiced ball or no, just about every home run record (outside of Maris' seemingly unreachable single season record of 61 dingers) was broken this year. More people hit 20, 30, or 40 homers than ever before. The Baltimore Orioles broke the Yankees' team record of 240 homers in a season. An ERA of four, once considered the threshold of mediocrity, was good enough this year to place a pitcher amongst the AL's elite hurlers...
...then again, how can one forget about the first quarter of Saturday's game, when Hu broke Harvard's all-time rushing record? Going into the 1996 season, he was only 18 yards short of trying the career rushing record of 2,130, held by Vic Gatto '69, so it was pretty obvious that it would take at least an apocalypse to keep...
Uncharacteristic of the team thus far in the season, the Crimson broke out to an early 6-2 lead over the Bison...
...short time against Bucknell, we came unglued and needed Eddie to make some big saves," Harvard coach Don Benson '88 said. "He broke up two fast break counterattacks that kept us ahead before Andy tallied the goal to put us back in control...