Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contrast, the process used to make crack is simple. Ordinary coke is mixed with baking soda and water into a solution that is then heated in a pot. This material, somewhat purer and more concentrated than regular cocaine, is dried and broken into tiny chunks that dealers sell as crack rocks. The little pellets are usually smoked in glass pipes. "Crack is a whole new ball game," says James Hall, executive director of Up Front, a Miami drug-information center. "It's an extremely compulsive drug, much more so than regular cocaine. The rush is so intense and the crash...
...charms of Texas is its inherent exaggeration of almost everything. Its weather runs to violent extremes. It is a rough joke to survive a drought of several years and then find the drought broken by torrential rains that can flood the town and wash away the pickup truck. Texas humor, like the Texas landscape, accommodates outrageous possibilities...
...bust in oil prices will pass in time like the seven-year drought of the '50s. But for all the usual Texas exuberance, one hears sometimes an elegiac note. Ranches are being broken up into "ranchettes," absurd little parcels of land in the middle of nowhere. The owner thereby becomes a small parody of the land-holder, the cattle baron. Some ranchers are turning their land over to "exotic game safaris," importing African animals (gazelles or eland or Cape buffalo) and parading them over the range to be shot, for a handsome price, by city boys dressed up like Jeremiah...
...narrative in three incarnations. He is the young doctor pursuing a brilliant future while his equally young wife sells her first book and discovers his infidelity with a night nurse. He is then the aggrieved ex-husband, complaining that Margaret's popular second novel, a "revenge tragedy" about their broken marriage, has damaged his reputation. And he is also the man, now a respected heart surgeon and administrator in Baltimore, to whom Margaret runs with a plea for a second opinion and chance: "Give me borrowed time, six months the way they do in bogus movies. Fair trade-off. Take...
...slugger hit a little broken-bat flare into right that dropped in for a run-scoring single. Don Baylor and Tony Armas (who raised his average 40 points with his four-hit performance) follwed with back-to-back doubles to put the Sox up 5-0 and send Viola to the showers...