Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sport where records are usually broken by only a hundredth of a second, her accomplishments are the equivalent of Joe Dimaggio's 56 game hitting streak or Wilt Chamberlain's 100 points in a single game...
Teenage whores and broken dolls. Petals torn from flowers and baby's milk gone sour. These are her subjects. "I don't really miss God/ But I sure miss Santa Claus," she sings. "I'm Miss World, somebody kill me." And further, "I want to be the girl with the most cake/ I love him so much it just turns to hate/ I fake it so real I am beyond fake/ Someday you will ache like I ache...
...approached the record and the pressure seemed unendurable, he started hitting home runs at a pace never before seen: seven in eight games. The weekend before the broken record, the McGwire alert was sounded: a press corps 600 strong went to St. Louis, McGwire's 10-year-old son flew in to be bat boy, and it seemed that everyone in the world with the last name of Maris had to put his or her life on hold to sit in Busch Stadium. "He put more pressure on himself that day than any other time I've seen him," Tony...
...hear Lynch loud and clear, and have made a study of what value looks like: cyclical stocks trading at only 7.5 times their expected 1999 earnings; institutions like Staten Island Bank and Webster Financial of Connecticut selling near book value; broken initial public offerings (like Keebler, or Waddell and Reed Financial), which have exciting prospects a year...
RECORD BREAKERS One reason Mark McGwire's feat has so captured the public's imagination is the record's totemic power: in 71 years, it has been broken only twice. Here are some records of Ruth's era, and a look at how they have withstood the test of time...