Word: shattered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Although U.S. officials hoped at week's end that the crisis will not come to sanctions against Israel, one stroke of the President's pen could shatter the Israeli economy. In 1956 Israel had a deficit of $365 million, most of it made up with income from U.S. sources-including $49 million in U.S. Government aid, $91 million from philanthropic organizations like United Jewish Appeal, $52 million from U.S. sales of Israel Bonds, $74 million from private U.S. remittances...
Temperatures plummeted to well below zero last night, and broke thermometers in Old Maine, where the official reading was minus 30 degrees. Here in Cambridge milk bottles shatter regularly, and ice on the sidewalks has turned to stone...
Turbulent, Turgid. As an elaborate gag, Shepherd began booming last month a purely imaginary historical novel-a "turbulent, turgid, tempestuous" composite of "Frank Yerby, Kathleen Windsor and Norman Vincent Peale." The book was first conceived as a hoax to shatter the faith of day people in their own "book lists." Shepherd urged fans to canvass shops for the nonexistent title I, Libertine, ascribed to "nonauthor than" Frederick R. Ewing, "well-remembered for his BBC talks" on 18th century erotica. By noon next day, one Manhattan store had received some 30 orders. The title mysteriously appeared on Boston's list...
...John Foster Dulles' skillful, lawyerlike opening conference speech. "In the Suez Canal the interdependence of nations reaches perhaps its highest point," said Dulles. "The economic life of many nations has been shaped by reliance on the Suez Canal system, which has treaty sanction. To shake and perhaps shatter that system or to seek gains from threatening to do so, is not a triumph, neither does it augment grandeur. The Suez Canal, by reason of its internationalized character, both in law and in fact, is the last place wherein to seek the means of gaining national triumphs." He made passing...
Cornell flaunted its great depth Saturday to shatter the varsity track team's hopes for an undefeated outdoor season. The Big Red took eight firsts and eight seconds in the 16 events to win a triangular meet at Ithaca, 79 5/6 to the Crimson's 56 11/12. Penn, a distant third, collected 36 1/4 points...