Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talked with some local men about Tunisia and America, and about the recent bombing of neighboring Libya. They spoke of Khadafi with admiration and respect, as many southern Tunisians do, and as a man who stood his ground, almost as a Robin Hood figure. Even with my broken French I understood that they saw him as someone who did "the necessary thing...
Regular tenants are not so happy. Three have broken their lease. Said one tenant who intends to move: "They've turned it into a fraternity house." But a businessman whose office overlooks bikini-clad students basking by the swimming pool allows as how he has no complaints...
...Harvard President Charles W. Eliot, Class of1853, said in an elegy to John Harvard in 1884,"He will teach that one disinterested deed of hopeand faith may crown a brief and broken life withdeathless fame. He will teach that the good whichmen do lives after them, fructified and multipliedbeyond all power of measurement or computation. Hewill teach that from the seed which he planted inloneliness, weakness and sorrow, have sprung joy,strength and energy ever fresh, blooming yearafter year in the garden of learning...
...Mauri, who acts as tour guide, is portrayed as a prime example of American capitalism's cruelty to the poor, a man who was ejected from his humble rented room by a rich and heartless landlady who wanted to turn it into a sewing room, a bent but not broken castout...
...Planck duration you have this space-time foam where the quantum fluctuations from matter to non-matter really have very little meaning, mathematically speaking. You have a Higgs field tunnelling in a quantum fluctuation through the energy barrier in a false-vacuum state, and you get this bubble of broken symmetry that by negative pressure expands exponentially...