Word: broking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Burns' two-part PBS documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (debuts Jan. 17; check local listings) rediscovers the story of an athlete who not only broke the color line but insisted, to white and black critics, that his color was irrelevant. The title of Blackness--the companion to last year's book of the same name by Geoffrey C. Ward--is no throwaway. Towering and obsidian-dark, Johnson was the kind of black man, critic Stanley Crouch says in the documentary, who makes whites "think they're in the presence of something aboriginal...
...They were resistant to investing in a machine that they wouldn’t be able to fix if it broke,” Ringer said...
...granted the Warriors a brief respite—one they eagerly capitalized on just 10 seconds later. Perched at the right point, defenseman Bryan Schmidt feigned a one-timer, then quickly slipped the puck to the left post, where Mike Fournier greedily awaited its arrival. His tap-in broke Harvard’s momentum and, it appeared, Tobe’s confidence...
Just moments after Healey turned aside a pair of quality efforts from Crimson pivot Kevin Du to start the final period, the Warriors broke from their own zone and sent the puck careening into the left corner at Harvard’s end. There, Brendon Clark fished it out, then shoveled a pass on to Mike Alexiou, who slapped his shot past Tobe to notch a 4-1 lead...
...stories like that broke the world's collective heart, so did the scraps of paper pinned up along the broken coastlines. There were photographs of the dead in India. Thailand had messages like "Try and contact us, Mum and Dad. Love, Louis and Theo" and a leaflet offering $10,000 for any information about a Swedish family--a mother, father and four children. As the full horror of the death toll in Aceh became apparent at the end of the week, it was clear that in countries other than Indonesia, the count could still rise. Five days after the tsunami...