Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moving a house is a time-consuming affair. The morning that Willie Anderson's home is delivered begins with workers hoisting the house's concrete steps onto a pickup truck while Anderson and her children pile broken bricks and stack cut wood. Clearance for the move requires approval from a slew of bureaucrats, and Walter Malone, 52, a professional house mover who has completed 30 jobs for Sister Grace, still has a few final forms to sign and fees to pay. "The biggest difficulty is the paperwork," he says, pointing to a glove compartment crammed full of documents...
...most carried only one person. A mile or so away, engineer Bruce Stephan was driving home on the upper deck of the Bay Bridge. He gripped the steering wheel hard as the car bounced up and down, then plunged toward the water. A 50-ft. piece of roadway had broken off and fallen onto the lower deck, carrying him with it. "Janice, we are going to die!" he shouted to his passenger. But something caught the car, and they were able to crawl out the windows to safety. Don Laviletta, riding his motorcycle on the upper deck, described...
...well-drilled 585-man fire department proved all but useless: broken mains left the city without water. Scattered blazes soon converged into fire storms that gobbled up huge swaths of the city. The inferno spread despite desperate attempts to create firebreaks by dynamiting whole blocks of homes and businesses. Writer Jack London, who lived in Sonoma County, said what everyone saw: "I knew it was all doomed...
...what must rank as one of the greatest comebacks in history. By April 23, plans for the first new downtown building were published, and others followed at a dizzying pace. They moved so fast that within weeks about 1,000 makeshift saloons were doing business and political fighting had broken out again. Ex- Mayor (also ex-Governor and ex-U.S. Senator) James Phelan, who lost a fortune in the disaster, led an attack on the corrupt municipal government with one hand and with the other helped get the reconstruction moving. Checks drawn on San Francisco banks were...
When Griggs returned to his apartment downtown, he found that his wife Jean had broken out candles and flashlights and filled tubs and basins with water. Says Griggs: "We've spent 14 years in the Third World on assignment for TIME, and you presume power and water failures as a way of life in many places...