Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...motorists have waited three hours or more to fill up. At some stations, drivers who rose groggily at dawn to hunt for gas have had to queue up behind long lines of cars parked and locked by people who had left them there overnight. Fights with guns, knives and broken beer bottles have erupted in the lines. In Los Angeles a male motorist deflated the tires of a car that cut into line ahead of him, then beat up a pregnant woman who climbed out of the car to protest...
That night, police said, the man crawled out of the box, knocked the padlocks off eleven other storage containers, rifled them and put his jack and the broken locks inside the crate. Then he replaced the locks with new ones so that nothing would seem to have been disturbed. One theory was that he had intended to put the cement blocks in the crate too, so that it would weigh as much as when first carried in to the storage area. The clever thief's plan had been to walk out of the bank, then have the box delivered...
Before the period ended, Doug Risebrough, wearing a protective face mask because of a broken jaw suffered during the semifinals against Boston, finished off a 3-on-2 break by beating Davidson to the far side...
...policy will not hurt any student who is genuinely ill, because a senior tutor could explain the reason for a medical excuse in a letter appended to a student's transcript. But often the reasons behind a sick-out--though legitimate--are not as simply explained as a broken leg or German Measles. Undergraduates who ask for excuses because of personal problems or serious mental distress might not want to advertise these private matters in a letter that will go into their permanent University record...
...neurosis and confusion in Manhattan's plot is thus both unexpected and disturbing. It is a story of love affairs nearly broken up, communication nearly established, people nearly honest with each other. If Allen was unfair to California in Annie Hall by depicting it as a doped-up land of sun and stylessness, he is doubly hard on his native city. The extensive location shooting in Manhattan--of the Museum of Modern Art, Rizzoli's Bookstore, Hayden Planetarium, even the Dalton School--may be the worst thing for the heartland's vision of New York City since the fiscal crisis...