Word: breakaway
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...Bulldogs weren't in the least bit phased, as Murphy quickly added another goal to give Morse the lead. Kirkland's Al Peacock scored two minutes later on a breakaway that tied the score again, but Gibney notched his first tally of the game to put Morse back in front...
With the score tied, 6-6, late in the final period, Cornell center Brian Campbell sneaked past the Crimson defense on a breakaway and rocketted the winner by Harvard netminder John Aiken with but 1:17 remaining on the clock...
...African ministries last week. But if Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith got the message, he failed to heed it. Instead, the embattled Smith clung more tenaciously than ever to his minority government (273,000 whites v. 5.8 million blacks). Meanwhile, an economic noose was tightening around the breakaway British colony, and there were ever louder alarms of a debilitating racial war between black-and white-ruled regimes that could engulf southern Africa. The possibility that Rhodesia would become the cockpit of Africa's next violent conflict grew steadily stronger...
With six minutes left to play in the game, some of the Kirkland control disappeared. Steven Mullin of Winthrop House was pulled down from behind on a breakaway by Kirkland's Rob Wagman. Mullin slapped the penalty shot past goalie Drew Pallet to put Winthrop on the scoreboard and tie the game...
Smith, 56, who came to power twelve years ago and then led Rhodesia's breakaway from Britain in 1965, has repeatedly pledged that "there will be no majority rule in my lifetime." He reiterated that hard-line stance last week, declaring "there can be no question of capitulating to demands for early black rule." But British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan has said that Smith must go "much further" toward majority rule in the British colony...