Word: shattering
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...they torture and kill at will is all the more troubling when heard in a pastoral idyll. It is difficult to imagine the age-old, sun-drenched rice terraces as the execution grounds where the rebels say they machete their enemies?civil servants, anybody with a job?and shatter their legs over wooden blocks. Sometimes beauty can even seem obscene. No journalist I know ever takes a day off in Afghanistan?partly because there's a terrible guilt, an abhorrence, about enjoying the scenery in such a desert of destruction...
...glaziers of Jerusalem will be rich if the intifadeh goes on like this. They charge $1,500 to install car windows that are shatter-resistant. People are paying. The Palestinian uprising is 2 1/2 years old. It has hardened into a dreary, bitter ritual. The reciprocal stoning and beating obey Newton's Third Law of Motion--for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Each side has found its threshold of acceptable suffering and cruelty...
...Roosevelt would shatter the nation’s televisions,” Morris said...
...blasts shatter the chill midnight. The sleepy Israeli soldiers throw down their cigarettes and rush to their heavy machine guns. There's a third percussion and then a fourth from the homemade grenades hurled at "Termite" post by Palestinians at the edge of the Rafah refugee camp. 2nd Lieut. Sama'ana Owdeh stares at the infrared screen linked to Termite's rooftop surveillance camera. He directs the camera at one cinder-block house, then another. His eyes twitch with tension and concentration. "You see them?" he barks to the men at their guns. Another grenade explodes, louder and nearer...
BRIGHT LIGHTS Dreading yet another year of hauling out the Christmas lights and replacing all the dead bulbs? New Forever Bright lights by Fiber Optic Designs are made of shatter-resistant light-emitting diodes that the company claims will last up to 20 years and cut energy costs up to 85%, compared with regular incandescent Christmas bulbs. Available in red, yellow and green and selling for about $10 for a string of 100, they might rekindle your holiday spirit...