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As soon as news of the ceasefire deal broke, he got ready to return home.

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Training on his hometown’s sand dunes and in the Pacific Northwest’s windswept rains, Prefontaine broke national records at Marshfield High School and then at the University of Oregon.

At the Texas state high school championships in May, five athletes in the final broke 10.2 seconds.

The president didn’t say what federal law the men broke, or if he had asked the National Guard to take them into custody.

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Glass and Henry Steagall, his sometime rival in the House, passed their eponymous bill, which broke up National City and other banks that had stock-trading operations.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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