Word: shattering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Record-Breaking: After all, Yohe still has a few more Harvard single-season passing records to shatter. Besides breaking both the Harvard passing yardage and attempts records against the Bruins, Yohe needs just two more completions and three more touchdowns to set new Harvard records in these categories. He now has 111 completions and 14 touchdowns...
...current four-game streak of throwing for 200 yards or more is the best by any Harvard quarterback ever. Yohe needs just 375 yards and four TDs more to shatter the all-time single-season Crimson records in these categories. No doubt, Yohe is the key to the entire Harvard offense...
...snowman doll has buttons that look like candy, and can easily be removed and swallowed by a curious child. The toy telephones shatter when dropped. Every year dozens of children die while playing with such toys, and thousands more are injured. Many of the toys are cheap imports that do not meet U.S. safety standards. In an unusual effort to keep hazardous playthings out of stores, the U.S. Customs Service has joined forces with the Consumer Product Safety Commission in what they are calling Operation Toyland. Inspectors have seized more than 157,630 toys worth some $550,000 in California...
...GROW UP. In Britain, Monty Python's Flying Circus tossed music-hall bawdry into a Dada format, and at home National Lampoon updated sick humor with a stinging Wasp edge. They were vicious; they were silly; they couldn't care less. And now someone had to shatter the lulling cadences of stand-up too. Who better than the child of Disneyland and Wittgenstein...
Although resigning under fire can shatter a life, a number of Reagan appointees have prospered, their alleged transgressions being considered an occupational hazard in a dirty business. Richard Allen, who resigned amid reports that he had received a $1,000 "honorarium" from a Japanese journalist after setting up an interview with the First Lady, has a plethora of Japanese and Taiwanese clients for his Washington consulting business...