Word: shatter
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...holding a prism to his eye, he would first shatter the space, then load its fragments with color and re-order them into a design. "A boat moving in the atmosphere," says he, "sets up stresses and movements in the air. That is what I visualize, and the pattern and organization of those stresses...
Andy, a fortnight ago, had won the 1952 winter Olympics' first gold medal when she skimmed flawlessly down the giant slalom course. Then, in the downhill race, Andy came a cropper, skidding to two bad spills. Such jarring tumbles might well shatter the nerve of an ordinary competitor, but slim-hipped, 130-lb. Andy was in high spirits last week as she inspected the special (i.e., shorter) slalom course for her final race. Andy skittered around like a frisky colt as Coach Herb Jocum and Husband Dave Lawrence plotted her descent. "Gee," said Andy with a carefree grin, "this...
...great international enemy, the Roman Catholic Church. The technique: set up a local church organization and try to split clergy and congregations off from Rome. "National Catholic" churches have already been promoted in Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Last week the Peking Communist government was trying with might & main to shatter the religious solidarity of China's 3,500,000 Catholic faithful...
...characters are not copies of people but metaphors on man. They talk their heads off in cartwheeling leaps of language which in a drawing room or on a radio program would probably shatter the bric-a-brac or the microphone. But they are real: they reveal, almost with each line spoken, something of the perpetually mysterious character of human.nature; their laughter and their tears ring true; the theatricality of their action, the preposterousness of their language seem, after a while, quite as natural as a lesser theatricality, a lesser preposterousness...
Love, says Ironist Gill, is not just the sweet mystery of life; it is a tremendous natural force that can shatter people who resist it. And people who truly know how to love can be dreadful nuisances in a world of people...