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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...
...Guinness Book of World Records. Bobo Brazil, for example, the ever-popular champ, has a skull that is reputed to be four inches thick. He inflicts a torture known as the 'Coco-butt' upon his terrorized victims. By smashing his oversized cranium against theirs, he is able to shatter loose bits of bone which drift into their brain over succeeding months. The lucky ones become basket cases. Others bleed from their ears and lose all control over their bowel function...
...critical of Jerusalem's sometimes insensitive administration of the West Bank communities. Writing in the Tel Aviv newspaper Yediot Aharonot, Zvi Al Peleg, former occupation commander of Nablus and the Gaza Strip, noted: "The stones thrown will not drive Israel out of the area. But perhaps they will shatter some illusions about our being the wisest and best conquerors in history...