Word: imperfectly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classic Miracles by the late English literary critic C.S. Lewis, the century's most read apologist for God. Lewis dismissed the philosophy that mind results from nature: "If any thought is valid, an eternal, self-existent Reason must exist and must be the source of my own imperfect and intermittent rationality...
There couldn't be a better setting for Ronald Reagan--like the Toga Room, an imperfect relic of a different age. Reagan outlines for the crowd his solution to the Afghanistan crisis--a blockade of the island nation of Cuba, nothing in and nothing out until the Soviets withdraw from the Afghan nation. "All we've been doing is reacting. Why don't we give them something to think about, like Cuba?" he suggests, to cheers. "I think it's time we quit telling the enemy what we won't do, and letting them go to bed at night wondering...
...polite applause when Carter promised to continue his vain efforts to balance the budget. Each had his or her interest by which to measure the message, but few seemed to bury their special sensitivities for something we used to call the national interest. That was always a vague and imperfect cry for unity, but it brought a hoarse admission of oneness...
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow: the past imperfect, done with syncopation and high style...