Word: shattering
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...endure our modest setbacks - we're late getting home, when we get there we're not as emotionally attentive as we might be - and our minor triumphs - the children perform endearingly at the school concert. But this we almost never acknowledge that tragedy of the kind that can forever shatter our middle class contentment is ever and always only a heartbeat, a hair's breadth, away...
...long time ago, when the Soviet Union was beginning to shatter, a Russian friend cracked a joke, and I doubled up laughing on a snowy street in Moscow. "I wish I could smile the way you Americans do," he said. I asked why he couldn't. He said he'd been trained by his parents never to show emotions in public. A stray smile could be misinterpreted, could mean the Gulag. I realized then that my reaction to his joke had been a political statement - a reflexive demonstration of my freedom. I thought about that when the laughter began...
...walk anywhere on campus, you see and appreciate that renewable energy can and does work reliably and unobtrusively. The solar panels on the Cabot Science Library and the planned wind turbines on William James Hall are a miniscule step in that direction. I hope that both projects will shatter the inertia, ignorance, and general apathy surrounding efficient, clean energy on campus...
...filibustering. Republicans say that they're just trying to discuss important policy problems and that Democratic leader Harry Reid has exploited a rule--known as invoking cloture--to cut off debate. So far in 2007, the Senate has voted on cloture 43 times. If that pace continues, it will shatter the record of 61 votes in a two-year Senate session, set in the 107th Congress. And ill feelings between the parties will further harden...
...street from the site of the first explosion, says he arrived at work just a half hour after a suicide bomber stepped onto a government bus ferrying Pakistan defense department employees to work. The force of the bomb was enough to sever electrical lines, disrupt phone services and shatter the mirrored plate-glass doors of Ahsan's office. His driveway was littered with "pieces of bodies," he says, but fortunately the explosion and subsequent fire did not ignite the wall of gas canisters he stores on the premises. "It was very dangerous. Thanks be to God that...