Word: splinteredness
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Shortly after dawn, Ismail Kamkas was, as usual, feeding the cows in his barn. Suddenly he felt the earth beneath him shudder and heard a tremendous roar. Thrown clear of the crumbling walls, he looked up to see his house in ruins. Scrambling frantically through the stones and splintered timbers...
Football traditionally has always been a popular sport. In part because the game appeals to our sense of the macabre, but perhaps more importantly, because it seems to unify our highly splintered society. If we share nothing else in common, it is a respect for Bob Griese or Woody Hayes...
The guerrillas countered with a barrage of automatic machine-gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades and fled for the center of the town, seeking cover and supplies in the courtyards and homes of the villagers. As clay-tile roofs splintered and shattered in a sudden rain of machine-gun fire...
THIS SUMMER, the Supreme Court frustrated 10 years of fevered anti-abortion organizing, upholding and even strengthening its 1973 ruling guaranteeing women the right to an abortion. Coupled with the defeat of a proposed constitutional amendment banning abortion, crities thought the court's decree would smash an already splintered "Right...
Rick's Café Americain is the state of the stateless. Rick sets himself up as a kind of chieftain or caliph in his isolated, autonomous, amoral fiefdom, where he rules absolutely. Victor and Rick are splintered aspects, it may be, of the same man. Ultimately, the ego rises...