Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since Brown and Queens also earned 3-2 slates the tie for second place was broken on the basis of goals for and against in the games among the three schools. While the other teams had scored one more goal than they had allowed Harvard had been outscored by two and was thus relegated to fourth. Brown had a better overall goal differential than Queens and picked up second place...
...green. Beyond sprawled the lion-toned territory. Everywhere else was a deep-blue sky like an inverted bowl; everywhere, that is, but along the terribly littered bank. Atencio gave the trash a tearless but disgusted eye. Tourists had not been responsible for the beer cans, the dead radios, the broken whisky bottles and the rump-sprung chairs. The Indian knew that. Standing there by the mess, gray hair pulled back into a ponytail, he recalled a cleaner season. His youth had preceded plumbing, he said, and in those days, in winter, the only way a boy could prove...
...down the corduroy road from the high ground and the village padded the stooped and broken father of a boy of this age. Atencio said the bandannaed figure, a former governor, had a wild son who had destroyed his father's truck in a stupid wreck. The son had since run away, taking with him some of his father's most prized possessions. "Look at him," Atencio said pityingly. "He has to walk...
...said the sign in Arabic on what remained of a grocery store's door in West Beirut a day after a bomb blast had blown out its windows and reduced much of its merchandise to rubble. Picking his way through cans of peas coated with the contents of broken catsup bottles, the shopkeeper shrugged stoically at the mess...
...realizes that it cannot drive a wedge between the U.S. and Europe, Mitterrand urged Reagan to look for a "signal" that could lead to a dialogue with the Soviets. Reagan and Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko have exchanged letters over the past few weeks, but the polite missives have broken no new ground. Said a senior Administration official: "Thus far the Soviets have given no indication they are willing to resume talks...