Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ground is broken for the new Science Center...
...this claustrophobic journey lies the door Weeks found, and the relatively spacious corridors beyond. It is here, as well as in two outermost rooms, that the artifacts were discovered-most of them broken. "Clearly," says Weeks, "the tomb was pretty well gone over in ancient times." The archaeologists have tracked down a record of one of those robberies, which occurred in about 1150 B.C. A 3,000-year-old papyrus fragment housed in a museum in Turin, Italy, recounts the trial of a thief who was caught in the Valley of the Kings. He confessed under torture that...
...Broken homes are the common thread that binds the lives of drifters. An accident or an illness can push someone over the brink. Wes Moreland, living in a $125-a-week room at the El Rio Motel in Bullhead City since March, says his life fell apart after a near fatal car accident in 1984. A onetime maintenance man in Thornton, Colorado, he lost three years of work, 64 lbs., and "my wife felt I wasn't the handsome young man she married." Three years ago, after his wife divorced him and got their $140,000 home and custody...
...mainstream publishers passed on her book proposal, and she was relegated to a small California publisher, Emery Dalton Books. And despite a 19-city promotional tour and wide distribution, the 100,000-copy first printing is headed for the $4.98 table. As of Friday, her book had not even broken into the top 100 titles at Barnes & Noble...
...Gulag. "I was in Perm five years and seven months. The doctor told me I had bones like a 65-year-old man. I lost all my teeth from bad or radioactive water in the camp. I was beaten with iron rods by KGB agents; my bones were broken...