Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happened far too late to be a fashionable mugging. Practically everybody the middle-aged householder knew had long since been assaulted or purse-snatched, or broken and entered in one way or another. People rarely bothered to talk about muggings at dinner parties any more. Truth to tell, the householder, who often worked late in the city, had grown a bit smug about being spared so long. He always walked fast and purposefully. He was in pretty good shape. And he liked to think that he had acquired from a boyhood in the country some special alertness, a sharper sense...
...Denunciation of the Supreme Court as, in McManus' words, "terrible, a total abomination. It has initiated and continued government intervention into many aspects of our lives where it just doesn't belong." Before the historic desegregation case of 1954. Brown vs Board of Education, racial problems were "being broken down through good will and a recognition of justice. "The United States military was segregated in World War II, but then [racial barriers] were broken down. There was no fanfare, then...
Georgi Vladimov, 51, a Soviet writer, hunches over a cup of tea in his small, fifth-floor apartment on the out skirts of Moscow. Outside, the sun has broken through the midwinter gloom, and in the courtyard below a father plays with his child among the birch trees. It is a scene of cheery placidity, but life is not placid for Vladimov. Like thousands of fellow citizens, he has learned firsthand about the implacable methods the KGB uses to intimidate those who deviate from prescribed norms of thought or behavior...
...since he ran with a broken hand. Not bad since he took up running only in college, excelling instead in six over in high school. Not bad since he hadn't traced in 14 months. But maybe to be expected for someone who always seems capable of one more surprise for fans of Harvard track...
...avid jogger, Danchy might have taken the opportunity to get in a few miles at Fresh Pond, but a broken wrist suffered from a fall on ice last year has left him "a little bit paranoid...