Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...burutal, bloody war has broken out in many parts of the country, and the old image of a sleepy little Latin American country beckoning Yankee tourists has given way to a new view, one shaped by nightly TV footage and features in newsmagazines...
...evidence of the disarray within its ranks. Launched four years ago as a broad coalition of peace activists, environmentalists and ex-Marxists, the Greens had promised an antiparty party that would rise above the infighting and compromise of traditional politics. Instead, the party has become fragmented, and fighting has broken out among the factions. Some Greens had hoped that the caucus would bring reconciliation. A battle over nominees for election to the European Community's Parliament, however, served merely to deepen the divisions further. Other festering disputes were left unaddressed. Said disappointed Petra Kelly, one of the Greens...
...colored stones. He wears a gold-and-diamond ring on the fourth finger of his left hand. His hair falls over his ears, the thin corkscrew curls shiny. His eyes are green, his mustache a pencil line over his lip. His nose looks as if it might have been broken once. There is a black mole the size of a nickel on his right cheek...
...great University has inscribed its goal above its gates: veritas. The only proven means to this end lies in the tradition of academic freedom. In a letter appearing in The Crimson; March 7, Nineteen Eighty-four, Mr. Mark Lagon of the Harvard Republican club argues that the tradition has broken down. He portray's a "left wing monopoly of political thought and discussion" that frustrates "true political discussion and interplay of ideas." Such monopoly makes a mochery of academic freedom, forcing the student to "regurgitate know-jerk radicalism to succeed in exams." To remedy such abuses, Mr. Lagon recommends that...
...expecting windows being broken and houses being burned down," she said Merrill added that the only major sign of student anger occurred during a five-minute food fight in the college's Fast Dining Hall...