Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...desperation Jane rents a room from her colleague Eddie, a quintessential Bull who, like Jane, is reeling from a broken love affair. While Eddie salves his loneliness by bed hopping with New Cows, Jane wallows in the feelings of unworthiness and unlovability endemic in Old Cows. "When Ray dumped me, all I wanted to know was why," she explains. "I almost think that's worse than the act itself--the not knowing." Only when her best female friend is also dumped does Jane begin to sense that it's the bulls, not the cows, who have the greater problem, giving...
...seems to be able to sustain student interest in race and by an administration which appears to be more concerned with avoiding campus division than with honest and reasonable racial dialogue. By now, the cry for increased dialogue at Harvard and beyond must sound like that familiar broken record. Hopefully, this poll will inspire students to engage in thoughtful discussion racial issues and the administration to let student groups lead the way. We look forward to seeing the IOP build upon this valuable idea of surveying students by following up with discussions of campus race relations...
...Shareef, a few friends in tow, went over to Nicholls High in New Orleans to see his father. Epps had broken up with Shareef's mother years before; so Shareef had no relationship with him and wanted to change that. He went to the front office, asked what room Mr. Epps was in and went to talk...
...fight against addiction, breakthrough promises have been made and broken many times; methadone was once considered a miracle drug, and heroin itself was developed to cure addictions. But researchers say buprenorphine could be the answer. Like heroin and methadone, it bonds to certain receptors in the brain, blocking the pain they transmit and convincing the brain that the cravings have been satisfied. Yet somehow it does that without creating cravings for itself. Even long-term junkies who try buprenorphine simply do not want heroin anymore...
This building has a tangled history, but by the late 1960s, it is occupied only by an elderly dying nun and Consolata, her devoted servant and helper of 30 years. And the Convent becomes, with Consolata's diffident acquiescence, a refuge for broken young women, on the run from husbands or boyfriends, parents or the messes they have made of their lives elsewhere. If they show up and have nowhere else to go, Consolata lets them stay...