Word: brough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard baseball team, just 24 hours after taking us all to the brink of ecstasy with an exhilarating, eleventh-hour win in Friday's showdown with league leader Penn, brough us to the opposite extreme by losing a shocking, humiliating doubleheader to Columbia at Soldiers Field Saturday...
...dropped a hopper behind second base that should have been a double play. Dick Drago, who started the eighth in relief of Eckersley and certainly didn't prove his ability as a stopgap, threw a pitch in the dirt to advance the runners to second and third, and Veryzer brough Gary Alexander home with a Texas Leaguer over Remy's outstretched hands...
...Chinese tale tells about a tyrannical prime minister of the 3rd century B.C. who assembled his courtier to test their loyalty. He had a deer brough before them and proclaimed it a horse. Those who imprudently disagreed paid the price of calling a horse a horse with their lives...
...continue picket duty six months into the strike despite court injunctions that could make them subject to jail sentences: "Hell, lawyers are made to get you out of trouble when you get in, not to get you out of trouble before you get in." And Norman Yar-brough, president of Eastover: "It is not true that inhalation of coal dust necessarily causes any impairment of pulmonary functions...
...TUNG has departed from the world. For one quarter of a century he helped organize and later led a successful revolutionary struggle, and in the next quarter century he eliminated starvation and brough socialism to the globe's largest nation state. He violently opposed forces that advocated a pragmatic rather than revolutionary approach to modernization, yet today, industrial production is 20 times what it was at the end of the revolution in October 1949, when Mao announced in Peking, "Our nation will never again be an insulted nation. We have stood...