Word: shatteringly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cecil Taylor Orgy begins on Thursday May 4 at 6 a.m.--an unfortunate time since the jazz pianist's five-odd fans at Harvard may all be asleep and the people who make a habit of getting up at six may not want to shatter their routine by listening to the sometimes abrasive music of one of the foremost innovators of modern jazz. (Later in the day might be a good time to get an introduction to Taylor's work...
Buzzing through the Crimson defense like a dyspeptic bumblebee, Byrd picked up his 317th career assist in the first half to shatter the Columbia record set by Elliot Woolfe...
...that center Elmer Love took the year off and the sophomore trio of Alton Byrd, Ricky Free and Juan Mitchell are now juniors. Free is the team's leading scorer and rebounder, even though he occasionally suits up at guard. Byrd, his fellow all-Ivy teammate, will probably shatter Columbia's career assist record against Harvard, as he is now 11 shy of the mark set by Elliot Wolfe...
...demands was bound to come off as a letdown. Looking back now, this onetime Monty Python groupie realizes what was wrong with that TV re-run; adding the visual dimension to the already warped dialogue of the troupe did not add much to the humor, but it did effectively shatter the mystique surrounding Monty Python stemming from my ignorance of the group's background and appearance. Had they but remained unseen, the Monty Python figures would have preserved their demigods-of-comedy status in my mind...
...Follin and his colleagues, Ernest Grey and Kwang Yu, explain it, cosmic rays act like cue balls in a kind of nuclear billiard game. When they strike and shatter atoms in the upper atmosphere, they produce a shower of subatomic bits of matter moving at great speed. When these so-called "secondary cosmic rays" collide with atoms in a cloud, they knock electrons from them. Accelerated in the cloud's electric field, these electrons avalanche toward the bottom of the cloud and pile up there...