Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only 370 remain today. The Palestinians who live in tents at Mashtal el Bassatin, a Nile village 120 miles north of Khartoum, occasionally call themselves Polisario, after the desert guerrillas of northwestern Africa. Says one: "We did not choose to come here." Discipline at Mashtal el Bassatin has broken down only once: on the day the fighters heard over the radio of the Beirut massacre. Outraged, some of the men set their tents on fire. About 100 of them had relatives in the two Beirut camps, and only a handful have since received news of their families. Arafat caused...
WHEN ANDREI SERBAN directed The Cherry Orchard and The Seagull at the New York Shakespeare Festival in the 1970s, he seemed content to rely on traditional interpretations of the Chekhov texts. With Three Sisters he has broken away, and it's not entirely a good thing...
...indictment against several people, some of whom are thought to have Mafia ties, for tampering with slot machines at Caesars. Even so, investors who shunned Atlantic City when gambling was first made legal five years ago are now having hasty second thoughts. Holiday Inns and the Trump Organization have broken ground on a jointly owned $200 million hotel-and-casino complex adjacent to the Atlantic City Convention Hall. Hilton Hotels Corp. has also decided to open up in the city and earlier this autumn announced plans to construct its own $250 million hotel-and-casino complex. Resorts International is planning...
...drives a beautifully scripted race. After six laps he has pushed his car up to fifth. After ten laps he passes Slagle's TR8 for fourth place. He is third after eleven of the 18 laps, second after 13. He has, we learn later, broken the course record three times in succession. But he runs out of race, and although he is gaining fast, at the end he is still 2.5 sec. behind Winner Doug Bethke's Corvette. Newman jokes with Bethke on the victory stand, puts his arm around Joanne, smiles for the photographers, and then goes...
...Justice Department is equally concerned with non-registrants who do not publicize their opposition, Turnage said. According to Turnage, 500,000 men out of nine million have broken the law by failing to register...