Word: shattered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member Auto Workers union, the federation's largest, will consider whether or not to pull out of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. altogether. With the Teamsters and United Mine Workers among unions already outside the fold, a U.A.W. secession, especially if other member unions follow suit, would shatter any illusion of domesticity in the house of labor, if not break up the marriage itself...
...squad turned in a fantastic time of 7:33.6 to shatter the old University record by 6.9 seconds. But it lost. And it lost badly to a mighty Fordham team, whose 7:30.6 clocking eclipsed Villanova's old K of C mark by nearly two seconds...
...rounds per minute, though reloading time cuts the effective rate to a far lower figure. Its muzzle velocity is so great that within 100 yds.-the range of most Viet Nam fire fights-an M-16 bullet generates supersonic shock waves that can collapse internal organs into bloody mush, shatter bone or leave arms and legs dangling drunkenly...
...does have drawbacks. Its lightweight, plastic butt is liable to shatter in hand-to-hand combat, where the infantryman often clobbers his enemy with the stock. Moreover, its high sight -necessitated by the carrying handle that serves as the rear sighting plane-means that a dug-in rifleman must expose his head and chest to aim carefully. But the rapid rate of fire more than compensates: in Korea with the slow-firing Garand, less than one-quarter of the troops fired their weapons in battle; in Viet Nam with the M16, everyone fires copiously. Many riflemen lug 600 rounds into...
Keith Colburn and Roy Shaw hit the tape simultaneously in 16:14 to shatter Shaw's old record over the 3.1-mile course by 34 seconds. The Crimson's John Heyburn finished fourth, also under the old mark...