Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...through conversations with tour guides such as Paul, through bargaining with street vendors--a mixture of broken English phrases and hand signals--and through interaction with the children who gathered curiously on the streets to greet Americans, I was able to take away a sense of the Chinese people...
...great occasions lately, the rest of the world has broken back. By any objective measurement, Britain's Sandy Lyle, the current Masters champion, is the most accomplished player of the moment. In some order, he is followed by the Australian Greg Norman, the Spaniard Seve Ballesteros and perhaps the Americans Lanny Wadkins and Strange. A winner of $3 million and no major titles, Strange was the signature U.S. golfer...
...advocated civil disobedience. Awad appealed the decision to the Supreme Court, which ruled two weeks ago that he had forfeited his right to residence status in Israel once he became a U.S. citizen. This legalism enabled the government to expel Awad without having to substantiate claims that he had broken Israeli law for his role in the uprising. To Awad's supporters, the verdict was a stunning example of a legal double standard: thousands of American Jews, they point out, are permitted to hold dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship indefinitely. Secretary of State George Shultz appealed directly to Shamir to revoke...
Willie Horton was supposed to be serving time for murder in Massachusetts in April 1986 when he invaded a home in Oxon Hill, Md., raped a woman and stabbed her companion. Horton had not broken out of prison. He had walked away from it ten months earlier while on a weekend furlough, an experiment that has been a cornerstone of Governor Michael Dukakis' criminal-justice program...
...most violent offenders months ago in preparation for last week's eight-nation tournament. After the first match between England and Ireland in Stuttgart on June 12, which Ireland won 1-0, some 20 English thugs beat up a 22-year-old Egyptian resident, slicing him with a broken bottle. Before the evening ended, 107 people, most of them English, had been detained by police for drunkenness and fighting...