Word: shatter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...needs more bands that kick down our doors and shatter our complacency. Give us the unrestrained Sex Pistols doing "Johnny B. Goode," forgetting the lyrics. Or Dylan or Springsteen, moving toward some poetic vision, trying to find a way to reaffirm life in the face of death. Leave the dildo to Steely Dan, to those who can't enjoy real...
...well as his radical supporters within ZANU. As it is, many of those party militants regularly attack Mugabe for his moderate policies. An acquittal, on the other hand, would tend to ingratiate Mugabe with ZANU's radical wing and with the more militant guerrilla elements. But it could shatter the whites' new-found confidence in Mugabe's government...
Belmont and the Concourse are just two communities beyond the wasteland of Charlotte Street. But they shatter a common misperception of the South Bronx as a community without hope. The South Bronx is more than just, as Ronald Reagan describes it, "A bombed out London after the war." There's life in the South Bronx, but it lies beyond Charlotte Street...
...play up your diversity on the forms without playing up yourself. The professors who teach the seminars are not easily impressed by high school types, and the more self-effacing on the application the better. And, if you don't get into one, don't let it shatter your self-esteem; chances are the decisions were made in haste or randomly. If you do get in, of course, brag a lot and feel smug that you've beat out all those other people you thought were your superiors this week...
...writers shatter the conventions of the past...