Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beyond mere morality, however, Harvard has bankable reasons to carefully keep the few promises it makes to this community. Broken pledges can only antagonize Cambridge, which has an untested but potentially powerful arsenal of regulatory weapons...
...into the water. Nearby fishermen raced to the rescue. Still breathing, Lord Mountbatten was pulled into one of the boats. He died, his legs nearly blown off, almost immediately. Two Belfast doctors on holiday hastily set up a makeshift aid station on the wharf, using old doors for stretchers, broken broomsticks for splints and ripped-up sheets to bind up wounds until ambulances arrived to rush the victims to Sligo General Hospital. Both Mountbatten's grandson Nicholas and the Maxwell youth had been killed in the blast. After a nightlong struggle to save her life, the Dowager Lady Brabourne...
...Second Vatican Council. (At the only legally open Catholic church, in Peking, the Mass is still said in Latin.) The Vatican has refused to recognize Fu's election. But when Pope John Paul II recently spoke of those ties to the Chinese Catholic community that "never have been broken spiritually," he was implicitly offering to open diplomatic relations again. Peking quickly responded...
Perhaps Adams' most striking record of nature in full terribilità is his nose. It was broken in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, when he was four. An aftershock tumbled him, face first, into a brick wall. "The family doctor said, 'Fix it when he matures,' " Adams chuckles. "But of course I never did mature. So I still have the nose...
...talent for fusing ideas with the diverse demands of big-budget entertainment, Coppola was the only real candidate to make the definitive film about Viet Nam. Apocalypse Now promised to go beyond the narrow scope of Coming Home, beyond the wrenching drama of The Deer Hunter. These promises, though broken, can still be seen in the film. Like other legendary movie mishaps, from D.W. Griffith's Intolerance to Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900, Apocalypse Now is haunted by the ghost of its creator's high ambitions...