Word: shatterable
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Jack and Jackie, themselves inveterate gossipers and image tenders, would probably not be surprised to see how hard these writers have worked to shatter that privacy. But as Jackie said to journalist Theodore H. White during their famous Camelot interview, "When something is written down, does that make it history? The things they...
Elizabeth Dole's face was ready to shatter. She was sitting next to her husband while he argued with Katie Couric about smoking--and then argued some more, and some more. "I'm not certain whether it's addictive," Bob Dole insisted, like a mule-stubborn father who won't concede that his smart-aleck daughter is right. Why did Dole dig in so hard on the losing side of the smoking debate? He went through hell to quit the habit, and he used to get into fights with his first wife about her chain-smoking. He even lost...
...fourth-quarter defeat seemed to shatter Harvard's confidence; the Crimson lost its next three games against Providence (91-87), URI (87-77) and Duquesne (80-74), self-destructing down the stretch each time...
...Indians remember that it was a Hindu nationalist who assassinated Gandhi in 1948 and that it was Hindu nationalists who touched off the worst anti-Muslim rioting in decades when they demolished a 16th century mosque at Ayodhya in 1992. There is real fear that a B.J.P. government could shatter India's secular tradition and tear its society apart...
...spirit of compromise and hope was abroad in Britain and Ireland last week, and that contrasted sharply with the air of despondency following the I.R.A.'s Feb. 9 bomb blast in London's Docklands, which ended its 17-month cease-fire and appeared to shatter the peace process for Northern Ireland. British Prime Minister John Major and his Irish counterpart, John Bruton, emerged from a Downing Street summit to present a joint plan for all-party talks on Ulster's future that could pave the way for peace. What was needed was a clear signal that the I.R.A. would call...