Word: shatteringly
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...Hook & Shatter. In Ku-ring-gai, Australia, the municipal council asked for a new fire engine after learning that the old one was so beat up it sometimes had to go to fires backwards...
...Communists want to shatter the stability of West Berlin's free economy...
...must have some place to drive to during vacation-time. Besides, modern techniques require big yellow bulldozers to ply dump areas throughout the day, and the continual pilgrimage of trucks and trailers, with the bulldozers snorting through the pines like prehistoric beasts, would be a grotesque way to shatter the placid hours of this venerable landmark...
...ticket holders were sent to other rooms, where they could follow the bidding on closed-circuit TV screens. The sale took only 21 minutes. But from the first rap of the auctioneer's hammer, prices leaped upward at a $100,000-a-minute clip to shatter every known art auction record. Items...
...Japanese traditions that dropped out of sight during the occupation, none seemed to disappear more completely than the zaibatsu, the huge cartels controlled since the Meiji Era (1868-1912) by a handful of great Japanese families. To shatter the economic foundation of Japanese militarism, U.S. authorities split such prominent family combines-Mitsubishi, Mitsui and all the rest -into hundreds of small firms, and the Japanese government itself adopted Western-inspired antitrust laws. But zaibatsu, like many another Japanese tradition, proved tougher than reform. Last week the influence and power of the zaibatsu sprawled once more across the length and breadth...