Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Five days after Tuesday's raid, bulldozers were still scooping up rubble, forming huge mounds of shattered concrete, twisted metal and burned wood. Notebooks and text-books littered the compound's roads along with broken glass and sharpnel...
...increased instability in the Middle East are taken seriously in the capital. On the one hand, Israeli officials say their country has been strengthened diplomatically by the oil glut. The declining petropower of the Arab countries has emboldened many Third World oil-using nations to renew contacts with Israel broken off during the 1974 oil crisis. But closer to home, some Israeli officials see increased potential for an attack by Syria, which has fallen on hard times partly because beleaguered Iran has cut off its subsidies to the Damascus regime...
...international airport. Twenty minutes before the plane's expected landing, as it flew at 15,000 ft. over Argos, a town near the ancient site of Mycenae, an explosion shook the aircraft. At first the pilot, Captain Richard Peterson, 56, a 30-year veteran, thought the problem was a broken window, though he later likened the thunderous sound to that of "a shotgun going off next to your ear." Said Passenger Jane Klingel, 25, from California: "The plane shook, as it would in turbulence. In front of me, I saw a sort of green lightning. I thought I was dying...
Reparations for the Clemson war included an extra 85 hours of cleaning managers' hours, and replacement of broken dinnerware. Reports indicate that neither the Clemson nor the Princeton food barrage was premeditated...
...women and men who started the American garment business came from immigrant families who clustered in the tenements of the Lower East Side. That is much the same territory covered by today's East Village, but if the roots are still around the old neighborhood, the connection has been broken...