Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years from now. And their protests--waged in court and around military installations--have been fortified by the incinerator's shaky record. Since the test burns began last year, the Army has shut it down seven times for such problems as chemical leaks, a jammed conveyor belt and a broken hydraulic line. So far, three top officials, including the incinerator's manager, have been fired or demoted; each has publicly complained about poor safety practices...
Rich socialites like Elizabeth von Pfeil, daughter of Francis Zimmern, and lavish-living bankers like Andre Sukjin Lee say the main thing they dread is street crime, long virtually unknown. Lee's town house was broken into recently, and police blamed illegal immigrants from the mainland. "We've been a very safe place," says Von Pfeil. "But what will our police force be like...
...city labors under omnipresent police, armed cops patrolling the streets of the industrial zone, gun-toting guards standing sentry in factory doorways, plainclothesmen nosing into every stranger's business. At any sign of citizen anger, party officials respond quickly to keep the city quiet, fixing water mains or repairing broken heaters. The city's new technocratic mayor has permitted small, regular, controlled demonstrations at city hall to let citizens vent their spleen about unpaid pensions and missing salary checks. But there have also been at least two large, unauthorized protests in Shenyang. Internal memos have circulated among party leaders warning...
...feigns ineffectuality, cringes, then breaks his leg and gouges an eye. As she starts to leave, he grabs her ankle hard (his grip "tightening like the jaws of an animal"), and she says to him, "Think. If you drag me back in there alone with you and your broken leg, are things going to get better for you, or worse?" Sweet reason prevails, and he lets...
...preliminary to the sport of reading about other people's mad adventures). Nichols is a highly experienced professional sailor, and Toad, his engineless 27-ft. sloop, is as strong and seaworthy as he and his ex-wife, whom he calls J., could make it. But now the marriage has broken up, and Nichols plans to put Toad up for sale. Before he does, he takes a farewell voyage...