Word: shatter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks ago, Oklahoma's ground troops, led by Halfback Greg Pruitt, who is averaging an all but unbelievable 11 yds. a carry, rode through Kansas State for 711 yds. to shatter a 23-year-old record. The following Saturday, Michigan State's fleet Eric Allen broke away for four long touchdown runs against Purdue to set an individual single-game rushing record of 350 yds. It was the 22nd time this season that a major-college back has run for 200 or more yds. in a game; by comparison, in seasons past such celebrated runners as S.M.U...
...elation was appropriate. Unless some unforeseen and unlikely event aborts his trip, he will become the first Western head of state to visit Peking since Mao Tse-tung's revolutionaries drove Chiang Kai-shek's government out of power and off the mainland in 1949. He will thus dramatically shatter nearly a quarter-century of total official estrangement between the two powers. Certainly, that refusal to deal directly with each other has been blindly unrealistic, and in a sense Nixon's overture was only a move long overdue; it was high time for both nations to change their stance...
...many of the best things about Britain-the peaceful villages, easygoing work habits, the uncommon civility that graces British life-will be endangered by EEC membership. There is a positive dread that chattering Frenchmen would monopolize London's sidewalks, that garlic-eating Italians in careering Alfa Romeos would shatter the tranquillity of the rustic British countryside, and that those too-efficient Germans would brusquely alter the cozy tea-break routine of British workers...
...Peckinpah and Stanley Kubrick honestly reflected surrounding chaos. Even if The Wild Bunch, 2001 or Little Big Man finally emphasized-through the criticism of portrayed societies-viable standards of intelligence and honor by which man could construct a sane world, they were at base level iconoclastic, determined to shatter set cultural conventions and destroy them utterly...
...other in 1967, Jim Ryun of the University of Kansas was the world's premier miler and Marty Liquori was a 17-year-old hotshot out of Essex Catholic High in Newark, N.J. At the A.A.U. championships that year, Liquori streaked home in 3 min. 59.8 sec. to shatter the four-minute barrier for the first time in his career. The crowd cheered-but not for Marty. He finished seventh, a full 70 yds. behind Ryun, who set a new-and still unbroken-world record of 3 min. 51.1 sec. for the mile. Last week the two met again...