Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hundreds of children with promises of pizza and basketball games only to baptize them instead. It's not yet clear how many children were baptized, and whether some parents had signed permission slips, police said. The Middlesex District Attorney is currently reviewing allegations to determine whether any laws were broken. If nothing else, at least truth in advertising was violated. "They didn't tell us about Mass or anything," said Rosa Vazquez, a Catholic who attended with a friend but wouldn't go through the baptism. "They just told us about the good stuff." -->
...return to sturdier, more surefire thrills: heaps and heaps of gore (the words rill and freshet crop up in relation to hemorrhaging), ambiguous but decidedly malevolent supernatural powers, and cataclysmic battles between good and ultimate evil. (Is there any other kind in horror novels?) Both books feature a broken-down writer whose output has dwindled from his glory days--one imagines that might be a scary thought for King. But here's an even scarier idea for a novel: What about a writer who couldn't stop writing--ever...
Ross Perot has been breaking promises at such a rate that his Reform Party allies are starting to desert him. First one broken: that he'd name a running mate "in just a few days" after his nomination. Perot has been rejected by House members ranging from Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, a liberal, to Linda Smith of Washington State, a conservative. He plans to concentrate on the 65 members of Congress retiring this year...
...hundreds of children with promises of pizza and basketball games only to baptize them instead. It's not yet clear how many children were baptized, and whether some parents had signed permission slips, police said. The Middlesex District Attorney is currently reviewing allegations to determine whether any laws were broken. If nothing else, at least truth in advertising was violated. "They didn't tell us about Mass or anything," said Rosa Vazquez, a Catholic who attended with a friend but wouldn't go through the baptism. "They just told us about the good stuff." -->
...hundreds of children with promises of pizza and basketball games only to baptize them instead. It's not yet clear how many children were baptized, and whether some parents had signed permission slips, police said. The Middlesex District Attorney is currently reviewing allegations to determine whether any laws were broken. If nothing else, at least truth in advertising was violated. "They didn't tell us about Mass or anything," said Rosa Vazquez, a Catholic who attended with a friend but wouldn't go through the baptism. "They just told us about the good stuff." -->