Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officer hit Pierce in the shoulder while a soldier pressed a Kalashnikov assault rifle into his back. Another officer struck Foley in the face several times and leveled a 9-mm pistol at his head. The soldiers severely beat the driver, who suffered a broken finger and thumb as well as multiple bruises. Pierce was bound with wire and taken to a Syrian military headquarters in Tripoli...
...results from the 1980 census takes on special significance. The figures indicate that the racial balance, the occupational mix, and the number and type of homeowners have all changed substantially in the past decade. And while prognostication at this point is difficult because the statistics have yet to be broken down by neighborhood, city mavens agree that the shifts in demographic composition will surely repaint the political picture...
...hardest things for a person in Boston to do, as an independent filmmaker, is to make a fiction film," says Gerald Peary of American Film Magazine. "Even harder is to make a fiction film which is funny. This is a national problem as well. Reggie has broken through a really tough barrier by writing a script that's truly very funny. It's quite an achievement...
...written that "animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the emperor, (b) embalmed, (c)tame, (d) sucking pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush, (l) et cetera, (m) having just broken the water pitcher, (n) that from a long way off look like flies." We now have animals organized into phylum, class, order, family, genus, and sppcies, but even in this age of home computers it is difficult to talk about reading, eating and sex in any ordered manner. Inter-texte...
...stressful events are unpleasant. Marriage rates 50; pregnancy, 40; buying a house, 31; and Christmas, 12. Holmes went on to show that in a sample of 88 young doctors, those who totaled 300 or more units on the scale had a 70% chance of suffering ulcers, psychiatric disturbances, broken bones or other health problems within two years of the various crises; those who scored under 200 had only a 37% incidence of such infirmities. The scale proved to be an effective prognosticator as well: by tallying up the life stress of healthy college football players, Holmes and Rahe were even...