Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summertime in Harvard Yard, and the temperature is over 100 degrees. A broken water main has flooded the grounds in front of University Hall with over two feet of water. Students wade through the water, clad in tee-shirts and bathing suits. Harvard Summer School...
Trailing 1-0 in a game their opponent could afford to tie, the icemen rallied for a two-goal second period. If not for a freak third-period goal, Harvard would have broken a six-game Clarkson winning streak, forced the series to a mini-game, and perhaps returned to the Final Four for the third straight year...
Then too his character must be reckoned into the burgeoning myth. Morley's reputation as the last wild man of the art world grows and grows. Stories about him proliferate and are often true: a jail sentence in Wormwood Scrubs as a young man, the rages in the broken-up studio, the destruction of work. One German collector gave Morley $40,000 for a painting and was nonplused to see the artist slash his canvas to ribbons before handing the check back. Such gestures establish a profile. But it is the work that matters...
...Middle East, controversy over the West Bank settlement and the role of the United States in that region has most of the leaders in that region paying similarly close attention to the election. So far, Jackson has distinguished himself from the other Democratic candidates. "because he's broken out of the normal pattern of Presidential candidates of being unthinkingly pro-Israel," Lecturer Daniel Pipes, a Middle East History specialist, says Glenn has also been more consistent in not taking a pro-Israel stance, Pipes adds, and therefore runs a close second to Jackson in pro-Arab states...
...observer could doubt that the emotions they showed were real and strong, but the gurgling obscured the toughness of these athletes. Cooper's recovery from complicated leg surgery was well enough known, and Armstrong too, it turned out, had come back after harrowing crackups. She had broken her leg in practice at Schladming, Austria, two years ago, recovered fast enough to get onto the World Cup circuit the same season, and then broke the same leg again...