Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hours after the flames died down, thick clouds of smoke covered the charred remnants of buildings. In one burned-out house, water still gushed into a bathtub. Broken gas lines blazed like torches in the remains of apartments; the twisted hulks of blackened cars were scattered through the rubble...
Since 1965, prices in the U.S. economy have been heading one way. Sometimes rapidly, sometimes slowly, they went relentlessly upward. Yet last week the Labor Department reported that the economy's 17-year inflationary spiral had, for one month at least, finally been broken. During March, inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index actually went down instead of up. This turned a trend of what economists call disinflation, or slowing price rises, into outright deflation, or falling prices...
...minutes, she checked back and found the frog jumping in slow motion. When she asked the youngster what happened, he replied, "Well, I wanted to make the frog catch more butterflies. So I got a listing of the variables and slowed him down." In other words, the youngster had broken into the game's program and changed it to suit himself...
...Torre, Joe's virtues may have been that he had a name and personality suitable to a regularly televised attraction and that his presence would guarantee the attention of the New York media. As the television cameras panned Atlantans waving "12" placards the night that the record was broken last week, there was much talk of Atlanta's sudden emergence as a baseball town, as if it had never been one before. When Joe Torre was just a plump kid of 13, his brother Frank was a slick-fielding first baseman for the Atlanta Crackers of the Southern...
...record-breaking time of 2:08:51. It was an extraordinary performance, but it was no more remarkable than the finish of Guy Gertsch. The Salt Lake City bus-station ticket agent finished No. 985 in the entirely ordinary time of 2:47. But he did it on a broken leg. Gertsch, 38, felt what he thought was a cramp starting after seven miles. But he was determined to finish, and so he pounded on for 19 more miles before collapsing at the finish line. Doctors, who later set his right femur with a steel rod, theorized that his powerful...