Word: shatterly
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...pressure can have one of two effects. It can shatter a nation into violent factions whose simple noise and passion give them fleeting leadership over the uniformed mass, till the state is like a tightrope walker who stands still and violently waves his arms until he falls. Or war can increase the depth of vision and willingness of a people to compromise so that they move forward poised and alert, responding (as a whole) slightly but sufficiently to each threat against their balance...
Fresh Russian troops from the East led a vigorous offensive below Leningrad Sunday, seeking to shatter the whole left wing of the German invasion army, while further south other Soviet forces converged on Smolensk and doggedly fought westward in the Ukraine...
BERLIN--War spokesmen said today that operations in Russia were "proceeding successfully," featured by German aerial bombardments along the whole front, and that Axis forces in Libya were fully prepared to shatter the British offensive...
...necessary to be shatteringly clever," he says, "to resist Herr Hitler successfully; it is only necessary to be shatteringly democratic." One of the first things he would shatter democratically is the average taxpayer's aversion to unlimited government spending...
...Reich. German laborers plodding to work in wooden-soled shoes, with their black bread and margarine wrapped in a newspaper, scarcely paused to listen at the public loudspeakers. The events of the past six years had endowed them with a stoic indifference which no new violence could shatter. Men over 50 had been drafted and even disabled veterans were called into service for behind-the-line duty. Few were left outside the war effort...