Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been a fairly difficult year," Moore says, and both partners said their new store has just broken even...
...increasing awareness of the apathy that permeates the life of Villa Victoria residents, and the complacency with which they accept the status quo. Each time I visited the houses of Maritza or her friends and neighbors, I wondered what I was doing there, administering band-aids to people with broken spirits...
...Frank says he revealed his homosexuality was to square his private and public lives, to protect himself from the Gobies of the world who don't abide by the tacit social contract among former spouses and lovers not to talk because they know so much. When that pact is broken, the results can be devastating. Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke, an able Senator for two terms, lost his seat to challenger Paul Tsongas amid divorce proceedings in 1978, damaged by press reports that focused on the breakup of his marriage...
Pierce's sudden withdrawal drew bipartisan fire. Lambasting him for "deceitful" conduct, Lantos said the ex-Cabinet member had broken a "gentleman's agreement" concluded after two earlier delays granted at his request. "Not only is Silent Sam silent," said Ohio Republican Donald Lukens, "apparently today he's also invisible." Republican members are expected to support Democrats this week when the subcommittee ponders whether to compel Pierce to appear before it by issuing him a subpoena...
...teeter at its edge, their windows shut to the ocean air, their backs turned to the city. Behind them cowers the neighborhood known as the Inlet, where boxy row houses devolve into strange confections of brick, plywood and cardboard, and people doze on sleeping bags in doorless rooms with broken windows...