Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dixon the GBC mile was his first race in 14 months. And all observers knew it According to Haggerty. "There were a lot of expectations surrounding the race, which put more pressure on Adam". Dixon ran with a broken hand and an untested left foot. He responded to the situation superbly...
...race. Everything revolves around him." Bergen is touching as the flighty, shallow but nonetheless sympathetic Rhoda; Houseman, who has been blessed with a much more amiable character than he usually portrays, is convincing as the civilized survivor of an ancient society who cannot believe that the barbarians have finally broken through the gates; and Vincent brings to the part of Byron a force of vitality and a hard, sometimes menacing passion. The only really bad performance, in fact, is MacGraw's. Although she looks splendid, she flounders in a role for which she is ill suited. Her voice...
...other side of the Atlantic, Reagan complained at his press conference that to the Soviets, "promises are like piecrusts, made to be broken." Be that as it may, it is clear that the Soviets' skillful propaganda?stressing their peaceful intentions, their willingness to reduce their numbers of missiles aimed at Western Europe and their flexibility at the bargaining table?has convinced many Europeans that the Soviet disarmament goals are genuine. The U.S., known for its Madison Avenue genius, has been put on the defensive. Acknowledging as much, the White House last week announced the formation...
Finally, last summer, Nitze took it upon himself to overcome the inertia of the American policymaking process (see box). He embarked on a secret exploratory mission with his Soviet counterpart, Yuli Kvitsinsky. The two men came up with a plan that might have broken the bargaining impasse. Nitze would have given up the Pershing II program altogether and had the U.S. deploy enough cruise missiles to offset a greatly reduced force of SS-20s in Europe The purely military rationale of the Pershing IIs had always been the object of debate and doubt. Their range would not permit them...
...being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human beings." These things, as Orwell saw, were not part of Gandhi's life nor are they part of the movie. For that reason, Gandhi seems more adoration than story...