Word: shatter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...customers. All a driver's protection comes from two pipe braces, which criss-cross over the driver's head and keep the roof from caving in when a car overturns. Except for the windshield, there is no glass in the form of windows or headlights which might shatter in case of collision. The driver is equipped with an aviation-type safety belt and a football headgear or crash helmet...
...Jane Greer projects the sort of high-frequency sex that can shatter a glass eye at 50 paces, but she seems to be more interested in home and family than in becoming a big star. Audrey Totter, on the other hand, is burning with ambition, and has some acting talent...
...scarcest where it is needed most. With increasing specialization, medical costs have risen so high that a serious illness in most white collar families, even in those who are able to pay for proper medical facilities, can devour more than a quarter of the family income and completely shatter a budget...
...Colonel Dymshitz began to sweat. But the worst was yet to come. Lasky pitied the writers of the Soviet Union: "We know how soul-crushing it is to work and write when behind us stands a political censor and behind him stands the police. Think of how it must shatter the nerves of a Russian writer to worry constantly whether the new party doctrine or revised state formula of 'social realism' or 'formalism' or 'objectivism' . . . has already become passe and the mark only of a 'decadent counter-revolutionary tool of the fascists...
...face the fact that children are not possessive about objects. Furniture, says Neill, means nothing to a child. Everything at Summerhill is as tough and unbreakable as possible, but it is still difficult for adults not to lose their tempers when students tear up favorite books or shatter records. But, says Neill, the children don't mean any harm...