Word: shattering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bill currently before the Israeli Knesset, however, threatens to shatter such illusions of an Israel with a democratic core. The "Third Amendment to the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance of 1948" was passed by the Knesset on its first reading in May, and is expected to pass again at its second and final reading sometime this month...
...contrast was stupefying. In December 1981, Solidarity leader Lech Walesa was arrested along with more than 6,000 fellow union members in a martial-law crackdown that seemed to shatter their movement and, with it, all hope of freedom and reform in Communist Poland. Last week Walesa found himself at the center of a very different situation. His forces had just whipped the Communist Party in the country's first truly democratic elections since 1947, causing a constitutional logjam that for the moment left unclear exactly how and by whom Poland would be governed. Walesa, 46, his trademark mustache...
...Communist wipeout threatened to shatter the delicate power-sharing agreement that the party and Solidarity negotiated earlier this year. Not only was there a fear of backlash from angry Communist hard-liners opposed to compromise, but there was also a serious question of how the country could be governed when its ruling party had been overwhelmingly rejected by the electorate...
...hope that in the future you will re-think your editorial policy regarding rugby and will publish only those articles which are truly newsworthy. In this way, you will help shatter, rather than reinforce, the pervading unjust stereotypes. Mark Sagarin...
...When you think of homers, you think of 1961, when New York Yankee Roger Maris hit 61 roundtrippers to break Babe Ruth's single-season record. Teammate Mickey Mantle hit 54. The M & M boys helped the Yankees shatter the team record for home runs in a season (240). While the Yanks were tearing up the American League, who led the National League in homers during the 1961 season...