Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bicycles were stolen from Harvard students this week. One Harvard room was broken into and robbed...
...good idea ruined," that futuristic fable he had planned on calling The Last Man in Europe. But he was always pessimistic about his own writing. This time the gloom was deepened by illness. His tuberculosis had worsened. The task of typing and revising the manuscript had broken him physically. He lay in a sanatorium bed when his book was published, in June 1949; the name that appeared on its cover was Nineteen Eighty-Four...
...City commissioner of housing preservation and development, who is carrying on a program worthy of Potemkin at his most imaginative. Confronted with the dilapidation and general ruin of the buildings he is assigned to preserve and develop, Gliedman has found an ingenious solution. He pastes vinyl decals over the broken windows of the city's abandoned slum tenements to convey an illusion of cheery life inside. Some of the decals look like curtains, some like Venetian blinds; some even contain illusory flowerpots, where illusory geraniums blossom in an illusory sunshine...
...woman in Mississippi nursing a broken hip last month decided to brew herself a particularly strong cup of Celestial Seasonings' comfrey tea. After putting enough tea in one cupful to make about 18 servings, she complained of nausea and blurry vision. Though the woman quickly recovered, the incident has caused a painful hangover for the teamaker. It prompted Celestial Seasonings to postpone a $12 million stock offering, and the company recalled some 6,000 cases...
...interests now lies in the court of the government, not in that of the press. If the government reverses its policy and makes a profound effort to cooperate with the press, then, and only then, can the government expect the country to respond with trust. But the government has broken that trust and placed the press in a position of conducting an all-out war to accurately inform the country. It is up to the administration, through careful cooperation with the press to keep national security interests intact. Otherwise, the best we can hope for is that the next time...