Word: shattered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...getting late in the football season. Hour exams suddenly appear to shatter the calm of the reading-period scholar, a wintry breeze rattles the bare branches of the trees in the Yard, and the Harvards are playing the Princetons for the 55th time at Palmer Stadium in Princeton today...
...performance is genuine. But it is also calculated to enrage the Republican candidate, to shatter the armored suit of imperturbability that has frustrated Dilworth as few things have before. In open debate, U.S. Representative William Scranton permits a thin smile to flicker across his face while his opponent heaps on abuse. Then he rises to reply-and that reply, despite its cool, deliberate cadence is whiplash in its bitterness against Dilworth. "We have got graft and corruption." he charges. "We have got it in Philadelphia, and we know what has not been done about it ... He cries in front...
...rousing loiterers into dances that were alternately elegant, calculating or frenzied. Sometimes serious, Lightning was also full of the ironic wit with which Graham occasionally likes to prick the dance world's pretensions. The girl's coolest, most contained movements, for instance, often prompted her partners to shatter the mood with explosive, calisthenic displays...
John Pringle, the most versatile man on the squad, turned in an amazing performance in the 200 yard individual medley to shatter the fourth pool record of the day. His time of 2:04.5 was only six tenths of a second behind Kaufmann's Harvard mark, and nearly a second better than the existing Harvard pool best...
Rick deLone then put the shot 56 ft., 4 3/4 in. to shatter the record of 56 ft., 2 in. which he had established ten minutes earlier. That previous toss had eclipsed the Harvard indoor record, while his later one fell within two inches of Steve Cohen's University mark. Sarge Nichols' 52 ft., 9 in . gave Harvard 17 of 18 possible points in these two events...