Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...though, and proved it by beating Old Dominion and Temple over spring break. Once school started against the team followed the victories with an unconvincing win over Yale, during which junior Megan Colligan sustained a leg injury that seemed to be nothing serious but turned out to be a broken bone. The injury did not heal until the playoffs...
...that to the broken hand of captain Mike Giardi, the Ivy League Player-of-the-year, and you get a season that bags to be described as unlucky...
...life took on peculiar and acute form in my generation. One of the hopes on my string of hopes is that we did the job well enough that your task, and my nieces' and nephews', will be a little less peculiar, a little less acute. The chain was almost broken; by God, it held. It held because a few thousand people struck stunned and alive by instincts and expensive education's and rough upbringings and deadly cities were able somehow to achieve and maintain the chain outside itself on to your generation, and then clean it as we fixed another...
...Every day," notes a seasoned member of the press gallery, "new ground is - being broken." This has included actual applause in response to speeches -- no longer only a dignified "Hear, hear" (in Afrikaans, Hoor, hoor) -- and the occasional ululation, if not from the floor, then from the public gallery. M.P. Jurie Mentz, a white member of the Inkatha Freedom Party team, delivered his maiden speech entirely in Zulu, and the I.F.P. leader, Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, followed him in impeccable English...
...hack can direct movies that make you cry. It's a simple matter of putting onscreen some wrenchingly sentimental image (sad-eyed dog with broken leg, widow on deathbed, noble peasant gunned down by soldiers) while a dozen violins tremble on the sound track. A filmmaker's real challenge is to create what German director Wim Wenders has called "emotion pictures": films that move you in a fresh way, with images that speak to the intelligent heart. Bernardo Bertolucci makes emotion pictures. He illustrates complex issues with indelible, seductive, ravishing images. And in his 12th film, Little Buddha, the Italian...