Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brezhnev-Reagan summit in the fall: The more acute the situation, the more important that there be a dialogue. No matter how strained relations are, the thin thread of dialogue must not be broken, because without this thread, we will lose contact altogether, and events will get even more out of hand...
...Israel's planes hammered hard at Beirut's Sports City, a former stadium that is now a storage depot for food and supplies for Al Fatah, a commando group of the P.L.O. Two floors of the structure collapsed under fire, burying guerrillas and their families in a broken mass of reinforced concrete...
...outings at the Indianapolis 500, Gordon Johncock, 45, had been stymied by broken crankshafts, flat tires, dry gas tanks and fuel-pump failures. His one earlier Indy win, in 1973, had come in a race that was stopped by rain after 332.5 miles. "It seems throughout my career," he says, "that it hasn't been meant for me to run 500 miles." This year Johncock managed to hold on for a full-length victory, though the jaws of defeat were snapping close behind. With 13 laps left, Johncock's STP Wildcat-Cosworth was 12 sec. ahead...
INJURED. Aileen Quinn, 10, freckle-faced star of the movie Annie; with a broken left arm, after falling off her bicycle while riding around near home; in Yardley, Pa. Although released from the hospital after four days, she had to cancel a three-week promotional tour...
...high and unpredictable are the social and ecological costs that an environmental debate has broken out in the Soviet Union. Ignoring the strictures against public dissent, an increasingly vocal group of Soviet climatologists, historians and distinguished citizens have joined local protesters-to say nothing of worried scientists abroad-in strong criticism of the scheme. The argument has even reached the staid columns of the influential weekly Literary Gazette, where one economist, uncharacteristically outspoken for a Soviet official, argued that it would be economically disastrous to tamper with nature on such a grandiose scale...