Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gold at the end. The way I read it, "Cinema Paradiso" said that if you worked at a movie theater and really loved film, you would end up a rich and famous director with gracefully graying temples, a bevy of beauties in your bed and a tragically, nobly broken heart...
...should not get the impression that Kennedy limits her discussion to dogs. She is quite lucid on the subject of Rousseau's urinary tract, for instance. Commenting on Rousseau's fear that a piece of a broken catheter had lodged there, Kennedy writes, "but it makes a certian kind of sense that Rousseau, starting with a lifelong urinary problem, would then graft the fantasy of a baby inside his penis onto his illness...
...attorney decided that his client's case was hopeless enough to warrant a bold gamble. In a move that is about the closest an attorney ever gets to throwing a Hail Mary pass in the final two seconds of the Super Bowl, Jack Carter conceded that Lopez had indeed broken the law-and then went on to argue that the law itself was wrong. Thirty-seven months and two appeals later, the obscure public defender persuaded five Supreme Court Justices to overturn a law that several hundred legislators and the President of the U.S. had already approved...
Dozens of teenage schoolchildren were killed in Taegu, South Korea, when a spark from a subway construction site ignited natural gas leaking from a broken pipeline, creating a tower of flame 150 ft. high. An estimated 100 people were killed in the explosion; hundreds more were injured. President Kim Young Sam blamed the accident on "carelessness...
...Sarah Winters, I leave a purple heart and a lifetime supply of ice packs. So many times she has been seen on the field or in the training room, grittily overcoming her injuries and yet continuing to pour in goal after goal in field hockey and lacrosse. Even with broken noses and countless contusions, she lives and dies for her sports...