Word: brokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...break came shortly thereafter. Even from within the car the world pressed in. There was nothing around me. No towns, no houses, no power lines--nothing blocked out the desert and sky but the edge of the road, the broken glass in the run-offs. It wasn't the American Dream, but it was an acceptable substitute: the random and the strange. Driving down 70 could not fit anymore into my easy categories--the images flowing past my windshield demanded my attention. The television mode with its comforting torpor collapsed in the face of scenes no screen could capture...
...travelling with a freshly minted M.D. off to San Francisco to become an intern, so I was privileged to see the fabled Dr.'s black bag in action. The driver who caused the accident was in the worst shape, suffering from a broken pelvis, internal bleeding and unbelievable pain. We were in a little draw, a canyon that served as a wind tunnel, and he, driving a pickup-trailer rig, was doing about 70 when the trailer was caught in a cross breeze and began to fishtail. After the trailer had totaled the side of one car coming...
...Shah has broken the law of the U.S. as well. In broad daylight he had Iranian students followed and even killed in the U.S. and Europe. He threatened them, took away their money and passports, arranged to have them kicked out of universities and did everything, often with success, to deprive them of the protection of U.S. law. Can the Americans afford not to look into this...
...Douglas MacArthur told a congressional investigating committee in 1901 that while being hazed as a cadet at West Point, he was forced to do deep-knee bends over broken glass until he fainted...
...Warren Avis, founder of the Avis Rent A Car system, was quickly filling a 120-unit condo conversion in Detroit last month, but saw many of his customers vanish as mortgages rocketed. Says he: "All of a sudden we got slugged in the guts. The last four weeks have broken the back of buying...