Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often justice must be served in a slow and deliberate, not swift and sure, manner. When society makes the grim decision to put an individual to death, when it terminates its end of the social contract with a human being who has broken his side of the deal, society must proceed as deliberately and as scrupulously as possible. The value of capital punishment lies not in easing the pain of the victims' loved ones but in providing society with a tool that it can use, in exceptional situations, to destroy the absolutely irredeemable...
That this is precisely what has happened is no surprise, given the powerful human urge to procreate. Some 100 women ages 50 and older have borne children in the U.S., and so have many more in other countries. In fact, the 60-year-old barrier has been broken several times. Last spring, a 63-year-old California woman named Arceli Keh gave birth (she had allegedly lied to the clinic about her age); so, in 1994, did an Italian woman...
After four long years including two knee surgeries, more than 20 Harvard losses and most recently a season-ending broken foot, Bibro's very presence on the Crimson sidelines is testament to his pertinacity and dedication...
This time his knee was fine--it was just that his foot was broken and his playing season was over...
Last night a broken down Harvard women's swim team transformed itself into a potential Ivy contender as it annihilated the Northeastern Huskies...