Word: broking
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Days after news broke that MIT was spending $90.5 million to purchase four buildings in the Cambridgeport neighborhood, university officials downplayed the acquisition saying that the buildings were routine real estate investments...
...four of which came in the first inning.Madick ended her fourth and final season for Harvard with eight wins, five saves, and 109 strikeouts, passing the century mark for the second straight year.PRINCETON 4, HARVARD 2In the opening game of the championship series, a short string of Tigers hits broke a tie in their favor. With the score at 2-2 in the bottom of the sixth, a single to left followed by back-to-back doubles drove in the two deciding runs. On the board early, the Crimson’s first two runs came from solo home runs...
...asleep. But the word literally means a temporary cessation of breathing and it is practiced (on purpose) around the world by an international community of extreme athletes - a brotherhood that now includes magician and stuntman David Blaine. On the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show on April 30, Blaine broke the world record by holding his breath for 17 minutes and 4 seconds - proving that just how temporary apnea can be is a question of training, endurance and will...
...Madam," once implied that suicide was cowardice but, in the end, she seems to have chosen that same path herself. "She wasn't going to jail, she told me that very clearly. She told me she would commit suicide," author Dan Moldea told TIME soon after news broke of her body being found in Tarpon Springs, Florida, an apparent suicide. Palfrey's body, along with a handwritten suicide note, was discovered by police in a storage area attached to her mother's mobile home. Palfrey contacted Moldea last year to provide her help writing a book. "She had done time...
...last drop in 1979, Mallory said she never had sex with Mailer when he was drinking.“Cowards need alcohol to make love,” Mallory said. “They might as well make love to the bottle.”Mallory said the couple broke up in 1992 over a dispute concerning an edit of one of Mallory’s pieces.“‘Gimme gimme. Gimme gimme another edit,’” Mallory recounted. “You don’t say ‘no?...