Word: shatter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goteborg track meet, Haegg ran a mile in 4:06.2, two-tenths of a second under the record set by Britain's Sydney Wooderson in 1937.* Two days later, at Stockholm, he ran two miles in 8:47.8 -to shatter Finn Taisto Maki's pending out door mark by five seconds and Montanan Gregory Rice's indoor mark by three...
...pressure can have one of two effects. It can shatter a nation into violent factions whose simple noise and passion give them fleeting leadership over the uniformed mass, till the state is like a tightrope walker who stands still and violently waves his arms until he falls. Or war can increase the depth of vision and willingness of a people to compromise so that they move forward poised and alert, responding (as a whole) slightly but sufficiently to each threat against their balance...
Fresh Russian troops from the East led a vigorous offensive below Leningrad Sunday, seeking to shatter the whole left wing of the German invasion army, while further south other Soviet forces converged on Smolensk and doggedly fought westward in the Ukraine...
BERLIN--War spokesmen said today that operations in Russia were "proceeding successfully," featured by German aerial bombardments along the whole front, and that Axis forces in Libya were fully prepared to shatter the British offensive...
...necessary to be shatteringly clever," he says, "to resist Herr Hitler successfully; it is only necessary to be shatteringly democratic." One of the first things he would shatter democratically is the average taxpayer's aversion to unlimited government spending...