Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soft-drink vendors in the end zone of the home of the Los Angeles Raiders playing football with the only tossable item they had at hand, a rat-tailed pocket comb? This was a few days before the Olympics began. They huddled, faked, threw screen passes, ran broken-field, clutching that little comb as if it were a grail. "Man," said one, "I always wanted to play the Coliseum." You couldn't have counted the goose bumps...
...Consider, for example, the question of how to get increasing millions of people to their jobs. Seventeen years ago, the government girded Mexico City with the six-lane Periferico, which is now one long series of traffic jams (on a reasonably typical afternoon, a one-mile stretch contained twelve broken-down cars...
...none of the explosive finality of an Indy car slamming into the wall at 200 mph. A rider loses control in a jump, hits the ground off balance, falls off his bike, picks it up and starts going again. Crashes serve much more as opportunities for passing than for broken legs. One of the most exciting parts of Saturday's action was in the second-to-last race, when leader Scott Burnsworth fell on the sixth lap and local favorite Jo Jo Keller swept into the lead...
...think that this will be Mary Decker's first Olympics, so familiar is the slight 5-ft. 6-in., 108-lb. figure of the finest female middle-distance runner in the U.S., and so extensive is her body of work. From 800 meters to 10,000, she has broken seven world records and essentially every American mark indoors, outdoors or on the highway. But Decker runs so hard, she powders her bones. Her shins, ankles and feet have been in and out of the shop since Little Mary was twelve, when she ran a marathon...
...holocaust"; Washington increased aid to Kampuchean refugees by a factor of ten (to $69 million); five international relief agencies, including the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations Children's Fund, 60 private volunteer bodies and the interests of 60 governments converged upon the broken land. In their eagerness to help, some groups brought in outdated drugs, woolen underpants of no use in a tropical land and, to cheer the refugees, Japanese children bearing harmonicas; in their ignorance, many pampered the very men who had shattered the country...