Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before ground can be broken for the University Place development, the council will also have to approve a series of road alterations
...icemen are still recovering from Saturday night's trip home from Orono. The team bus left the arena at 11 p.m. and cruised at a snow-encumbered but steady pace until grinding to a halt with a broken clutch at a toll booth near the New Hampshire border. The blizzard delayed the arrival of another bus and attempts to revive the vehicle were unsuccessful, so everyone sat there for four hours and watched the snow fall. Finally, at 6 a.m., a new bus showed up and the squad...
...that he would ask his Cabinet to reject the participation of the Europeans as long as they supported a P.L.O. peace role. The 68-year-old Prime Minister's resolve was in no way weakened the next day when a fall in his home hospitalized him with a broken left thigh. It was expected that the Cabinet meeting discussing the subject would be held at his bedside in Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital...
...sleeve from his robe rather than disturb his friend, asleep on the Prophet's gown. Samuel Johnson daily pampered his spoiled companion Hodge with meals of fresh oysters. Victor Hugo cherished Gavroche. Cardinal Richelieu left a generous legacy for the 14 he owned. Napoleon is said to have broken into a cold sweat at the sight of one. In his childhood, Smerdyakov, in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, was fond of hanging them. Thomas Hardy and Thomas Gray wrote poems to them; Hemingway shared dinner with his. Physician and Scholar Albert Schweitzer favored two ways to take refuge...
...condition is prevalent among older women because their frames are smaller than men's and after menopause the ovaries cease to produce estrogen, the female hormone that plays an important role in the retention of bone. Normally the body forms new bone tissue as old bone is broken down in a process called resorption. Estrogen helps regulate the rate of this remodeling; if the hormone is deficient, bone is not replaced as quickly as it is removed. Smoking, poor diet and lack of exercise increase a woman's chances of developing osteoporosis...