Word: shatter
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...government finds itself making devices which nobody wants, everyone fears, and are never intended for use. But we are also left with a type of weapon which, sadly, cannot really escape the cruel dictates of deterrence theory. Despite their admitted horror, weapons which burn lungs, spread plague or shatter central nervous systems still respond to the same "logic" as nukes--if the United States has them the Soviets will be less tempted to use them...
...richer for its reaching out. He claims throughout that the book is not open-ended. But were it in fact closed, its source of vitality would disappear. Even in the story's framework. Donoso questions the validity of his assertion that art is only artifice. Facades of fiction continuously shatter, and the characters reconstruct them each time. Eventually it becomes impossible to distinguish lies from truth, fiction from reality...
...campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, skeptics note that Mondale has not aroused the electorate, that his support, in the words of one, is "a mile wide and an inch thick." Another doubter likens Mondale's campaign to a glass train: one bump, and it is sure to shatter...
Some snow-removal equipment has been brought from Austria and Switzerland, but a big dump of snow could shatter even the Olympic omnilingual outdoor cursing record set four years ago at Lake Placid, during a work stoppage by bus drivers hired for the Games. Transportation of live spectators is admittedly not a high-priority matter. Any Winter Olympics is and should be a TV spectacle...
...base of this light and lovely sport is dark and disturbing. At tender ages, children by the pair are instructed how to hold on to each other as intimately as a man and woman, to hang on for dear life and try not to fall. When dropped, they shatter. Olympic athletes in almost all of the various sports heed nutritionists and other modern helpers, but the figure skaters make the best use of psychologists...