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Word: shatter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hong Kong's Communist Wen Hui Pao last week. AMERICANS POWERLESS TO THREATEN CHEN CHING-KAI. Occasion for the rejoicing was a weight-lifting meet in Moscow, in which Red China's little (127 lbs.) Chen hoisted 326¼ lbs. in the clean-and-jerk to shatter the world featherweight record held by the U.S.'s Isaac Berger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mao's Muscled Minions | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...Hook & Shatter. In Ku-ring-gai, Australia, the municipal council asked for a new fire engine after learning that the old one was so beat up it sometimes had to go to fires backwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 1, 1958 | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...Communists want to shatter the stability of West Berlin's free economy...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Test Ban Talks Appear Doomed As Both Sides Reject Proposals; Berlin Mayor Sees No Blockade | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...must have some place to drive to during vacation-time. Besides, modern techniques require big yellow bulldozers to ply dump areas throughout the day, and the continual pilgrimage of trucks and trailers, with the bulldozers snorting through the pines like prehistoric beasts, would be a grotesque way to shatter the placid hours of this venerable landmark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quiet Desperation | 10/28/1958 | See Source »

...ticket holders were sent to other rooms, where they could follow the bidding on closed-circuit TV screens. The sale took only 21 minutes. But from the first rap of the auctioneer's hammer, prices leaped upward at a $100,000-a-minute clip to shatter every known art auction record. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Testing the Highs | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

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