Word: brokenly
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Sabatino had broken Sellers' single-game lvy record earlier in the year when she recorded 39 saves against Pennsylvania. And she now holds the lvy single-season save record with...
Arab and Jew is not David Shipler's first book-length attempt to explain a foreign culture to an American audience. In 1983, he published Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams based upon his four years in the Soviet Union, where he served as a correspondent and later bureau chief for The New York Times. While Shipler says it was much easier to be a reporter in Israel than in Russia--"Israel is a flagrantly open society"--in both countries he faced the difficulty of reporting on a society about which many Americans had strong preconceptions...
...until they are proved innocent." In Zimbabwe, thousands of youths stormed through downtown Harare, attacking whites on the streets, smashing windows and besieging South African, Malawian and U.S. offices. The worst damage was at the South African Airways ticket center, whose staff fled as the mob surged through a broken plate-glass window, smashed furniture and computer terminals, then set the building afire. Another group stoned the U.S. embassy and offices of the Malawi high commission. Malawi is the only black African state that has full diplomatic relations with Pretoria...
Amazingly, ten aboard the plane survived, including the Soviet pilot, Vladimir Novoselov, who was taken to a South African hospital with a broken thigh and a concussion. According to initial reports, Novoselov claimed the plane was shot down, and another survivor, Machel Bodyguard Fernando Joao, said, "We heard a shot or a bang from within the plane. The plane vibrated, and then we crashed." The official Mozambique daily Noticias speculated that electronic interference by South Africa might have led the pilot off course...
...ways than one. But -- surprise! -- King Kong was only down, not out, for the count. In King Kong Lives, a sequel to the 1976 film to be released this Christmas, the lovesick hunk is saved by the brilliant Dr. Amy Franklin, played by Linda Hamilton. She replaces Kong's broken heart with, of course, the latest and largest in artificial tickers. She also arranges a blind date with a brown-haired lovely called Lady Kong. "He gives up on the (human) girls this time," notes Hamilton with a trace of relief. "He falls in love with a woman...