Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spring break has been very good for Harvard athletics...
...murderers were so unrepentant that they deserved execution. In its zeal to help Morris, the Dallas district attorney's office turned over the dusty records from Adams' trial. What Morris found in the boxes was more intriguing than Dr. Death: evidence of a prosecution willing to bend, if not break, the guarantees of a fair trial in its efforts to obtain a conviction. Morris abandoned his original project in order to tell Adams' story in The Thin Blue Line, which won two major film awards and helped Adams finally win his freedom...
Convicted and condemned, Adams was like the man in the dream whose lips form words but who cannot be heard. He got a major break when Schaffer, a scrappy young Houston lawyer, took his case in 1982 for expenses only. Then Morris began filming in 1985. The investigating officers sat before him in their best Sunday suits, preening for the camera, as did two prosecution witnesses whose stories fell apart. Most chilling of all, Harris all but confessed, saying to Morris, "I'm the one who knows" Adams is innocent...
Emergency crews placed booms in the sound to contain the spill, and the Coast Guard dropped chemicals in an attempt to break up the slick. But local officials criticized Exxon and pipeline officials for responding slowly. Doug Griffin, city manager of Valdez, said the first teams to arrive waited for a leader to show up and take charge...
...game trophy hunting repels me. But I have never thought there was anything wrong with killing as much small game in one day as I and a few friends could eat in the evening -- no more than that and always within the limits. On a good day I can break 24 targets out of 25 at trapshooting, and 22 or so at skeet, which is O.K. for an art critic...