Word: shatteringly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...provide supplemental water to 387,000 more. Brown's stand in favor of building the Auburn Dam was backed by Lyston Baldwin, past president of the Sacramento Area Water Works Association. Carter's action, he said, "left me shaking. If the dam is stopped, it will shatter the whole master plan for this section of California...
...cards. An acute shyness alone does not separate Carrie from her classmates; evoking the image of another teenage girl of recent vintage who is "somehow different," Carrie is endowed with a power not commonly found among us mortals--the power of telekinesis. Ashtrays somersault, mirrors vibrate and shatter--and the camera's close-ups on Carrie erase all doubts as to the source of these phenomena...
Even at our present size, we are stopping the enemy on many fronts, and one thousand members of the Society in each congressional district would surely shatter any hope they ever had of enslaving us all. This strength would give us the time to carry out the third part of our motto, and to build--with God's help always--a better world...
...minds of men." General Charles Lee is equally enthusiastic: "A masterly, irresistible performance. I own myself convinced, by the arguments, of the necessity of a separation." These praises are not quite accurate. Sound reasoning is not the main strength of Common Sense, but its fierce rhetoric has helped to shatter the unreasoning assumptions that upheld loyalty to the British Crown...
Wagner plays a latter-day Wonder Woman who became the world's first bionic woman after she was nearly killed in a skydiving accident; doctors rebuilt her, piece by voluptuous piece, with 80-m.p.h. legs, a right arm that can shatter trees and an ear capable of hearing leaves rustle in the next county. Between classes at a military base in Ojai, Calif., where she is a schoolteacher, she moonlights as an intelligence agent...