Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Daylight finally comes, "sending away the enchanted forest and all the magic of the night and revealing a scene, more resembling a battlefield, of trampled grass, empty bottles, broken glasses, upturned chairs, errant garments, and every sort of unattractive human debris." The revelers emerge the worse for wear. Gerard Hernshaw, the acknowledged leader of this elite band, has learned by phone that his ill father has died overnight. Gerard's oldest and closest friends, Jenkin Riderhood and Duncan Cambus, are drunk and disoriented. Although Duncan seldom needs a reason for such a condition, in the aftermath of this midsummer night...
Hoyos believed that the Medellin cartel could be broken, but he was realistic about the consequences of trying. A year before Hoyos' murder, a former Justice Minister who had been appointed Ambassador to Hungary was tracked down and seriously wounded in Budapest. Said Hoyos at the time: "No one is safe anywhere against the vengeance of the mafia...
...blocks with translucent dark green glass on three sides, giving the impression that the plants and their roots are suspended in space, released from their glass prison. The form, which Stankard calls a cloistered botanical, brought his work to the attention of collectors of contemporary glass. "He has broken away from the traditional paperweight style, and is now accepted as a very serious artist around the world," says Douglas Heller, director of the Heller Gallery...
...renewed outburst of protests in the West Bank and Gaza at week's end that, according to Arab sources, left 15 injured by live ammunition as well as rubber bullets, the policy had brought a measure of uneasy calm to the occupied territories. Rabin might well argue that broken bones are preferable to the 38 deaths that occurred before he announced he was replacing bullets with beatings. But the change in policy has further tarnished Israel's image abroad...
...Manhattan's Stephen Wise Free Synagogue: "When the Israelis become like their enemy, they are no different from their enemy." "We read with shame," wrote four Jewish intellectuals in a letter to the New York Times, "reports of house to house beatings of hundreds of people, leading to broken bones and hospitalization of the aged and children." The letter was signed by Author Irving Howe; Economist Henry Rosovsky, a former Harvard dean; Princeton Political Scientist Michael Walzer; and Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg...