Word: shatterproof
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...instance, late on a Friday night last month, a store surveillance camera picked up eight men in ski masks outside the entrance of Ed's Gun & Tackle in Marietta, Georgia. One of them took a hard swing at the display window with a sledgehammer. Nothing happened. (Sometimes that shatterproof glass really works.) The group scattered, then returned in a car, which they drove straight through the glass doors. What followed was a frenzied minute of supermarket sweep as the intruders grabbed 60 semiautomatic handguns. Three of the thieves have been arrested, but only two of the guns have been retrieved...
...defend themselves, the settlers often travel in convoys and maintain radio contact with situation rooms back home. They get army escorts to guard ! Jewish buses in the territories, and have persuaded the government to subsidize car owners who purchase shatterproof windows. However settlers travel, army-issued weapons are always within reach...
...Lipsig can handle jurors' emotions with the finesse of a symphony conductor. The faces in the jury box registered grief and shock during Lipsig's opening statement in Chernow's suit as the maestro described the doctor's tragic demise: picked up by a front fender, smashed into a "shatterproof" windshield, to "land with a thud on the roadway" with "52 bone fractures." After just one day of trial, the city threw in the towel and settled for an undisclosed amount. "Trying a case against him was like playing golf against Ben Hogan," said Linda Cronin, one of the opposing...
...Student Production Association (SPA), the council offshoot organizing the concert, and the Department of Athletics said it would take too much time and money to take the plexiglass down for the May 1 rock show. The shatterproof glass is a permanent fixture in the rink, serving in part to protect fans from players or airborne hockey pucks...
...dynamite, exploded just outside the employee parking lot. The blast killed a Colombian woman standing near by, knocked down several 50-year-old eucalyptus trees and blew out windows in a 15-story office building a block away. But it did not crack a single pane of the shatterproof glass in the embassy or injure any of the 309 people inside. Said an embassy employee: "They'd have had to hit us with an atom bomb to shake this place...