Word: shatter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accused man starts using the language of rape. "I felt violated," he says. "I felt like she was taking advantage of me when she was very drunk. I never heard her say 'No!,' 'Stop!,' anything." He is angry and hurt at the charges, worried that they will get around, shatter his reputation and force him to leave the small campus...
...fact that the council put up a kind of innocuous banner and it passed nine to zero shows that things have kind of settled in," Ackermann observes. But she adds that when the war heats up the council's unified front may shatter under pressure from the public because of the greater freedom for protest now allowed, and because of the wide spectrum of ideologies Cambridge citizens represent...
What would it take to shatter the consensus behind George Bush's policy in the gulf? A meat-grinder war of attrition, strewed with melting bodies in charred tanks? A female prisoner of war paraded on videotape? A bombed-out Statue of Liberty, sinking in tiny copper pieces to the bottom of New York harbor? Conventional wisdom holds that if a ground war begins and the body bags start piling up, backing for the war will dissolve. This is not just the expert condescension that assumes Americans will sustain a war only as long as it mimics a video game...
...have never been invaded by a stronger force than our own, never had to watch as troops marched through our streets, preserving or destroying as they saw fit. When bombs go off in a war, they don't shatter the glass in our bedrooms windows, or destroy our prop-property, or kill our entire families...
...policy to nuke Iraq, which by all indications does not yet have the Bomb, other countries might rush to develop atomic arms and possibly to use them. At the same time, revulsion over America's use of the ultimate weapon -- once again against a non-Western people -- would probably shatter the alliance against Saddam...