Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chaotic encounter outside the police station, the slim, unshaven Turk for the first time confirmed previously published accounts of his confession to Italian investigators. Speaking in broken English and flawed Italian, he claimed that he was trained as a terrorist "in Bulgaria and in Syria." Italian officials believe that Agca was aided in the assassination attempt by three Bulgarians: two former employees at the Rome embassy and Sergei Ivanov Antonov, onetime Rome manager of the Bulgarian airline, who is now being held in a Rome jail pending the outcome of the investigation. Was Antonov involved? newsmen asked, as Agca climbed...
...they watched a green line edge across a video screen, the excitement mounted. "It's going!" exclaimed one of the exultant scientists. "Keep going! Keep going!" shouted another. The control room soon erupted into a chorus of unrestrained cheers. Bottles of champagne were broken out, and toasts resounded...
Cambridge--with a population of 90,000--is divided into 10 neighborhoods, but with some rough generalizing, it can be broken down into five demographic regions. Harvard dominates mid-Cambridge, which blends in with West Cambridge as the upper-class academic, professional set. Northwest down Mass Ave lies North Cambridge, a heavily Irish Catholic region where the Speaker can be seen strolling the streets on an occasional Saturday afternoon. To the Northeast past MIT is East Cambridge--a tight-knit mix of Italians and Portuguese, with a recent influx of Haitians. The colorful, outspoken Al Vellucci, 36 years a city...
Above all, the Christian Democrats erred in renouncing their time-honored role as the bulwark against a Communist advance. During the campaign, De Mita declared that the party no longer had any ideological objection to the Communists as a democratic alternative. Berlinguer, he noted, had broken with Moscow over Poland and accepted Italy's membership in NATO. The Communists, moreover, were widely perceived to be entering a period of gradual decline. With a minimized menace on the left, anti-Communist voters who had once turned to the Christian Democrats felt free to scatter their votes to other parties...
...addition, has not broken into the market for so-called supercomputers, which are used mainly for scientific research. The company launched supercomputer projects in the 1950s and 1960s, but could not produce a design that executives believed would be profitable. IBM has since abandoned the specialized field to Control Data and Cray Research...