Word: shattered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nothing were permitted, no violence would result." The brief chapter and the outlines on science suggest that in Miller's hands science and technology would also have spelled out their moral justification in terms of national unity, binding the nation with railroads and telegraph wires before it could shatter...
Social change has even managed to shiver-if not shatter-India's long-frozen caste system. Low-caste village scavengers-who under Hindu tradition skinned dead livestock to sell the hides -now find less messy jobs. Hide merchants from the cities are forced to send out trucks with their own men to do the dirty work. Higher up the caste ladder, India faces a servant problem even more perplexing than that in the West (TIME, July 9). The punkah wallahs of the past are no longer willing to turn the fans in stifling offices; they have been replaced...
...Essentially, it is in the North Vietnamese interest to work both sides of the street. And basically it is in Washington's interest to keep Ho astraddle, while at the same time doing nothing that might drive Russia and Red China together. Bombing the SAM sites might well shatter that policy...
...battlefield surgeon has always worked against forbidding odds. Aseptic surgery is practically impossible in a tent operating room of the sort that has gone almost unchanged for 100 years. The canvas is far from airtight, and temperature control is so bad that an infusion bottle might freeze and shatter in mid-operation. The lab work that is essential in today's medicine and surgery is usually out of the question...
...Trout" in the lightest of holiday moods, and the double bass has to tiptoe to keep the music from being heavy-footed. Georg Hortnagel handles the part with the required grace, playing with the violinist, violist and cellist of the Hungarian String Quartet. A percussive piano could also shatter Schubert's mood, but Louis Kentner's playing is gossamer. The result is a lithe, blithe dream of summer...