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Daunting to early-20th-century explorers—trapping (and ultimately crushing) Ernest Shackleton's Endurance and derailing Robert Scott's 1901 Discovery expedition—the seasonal pack ice is the lifeblood of Antarctica's marine ecosystem.
Berlin continued as a virtually autonomous outpost of the German empire until 1448, when Brandenburg’s Kurfürst (Prince Elector) Friedrich II took over control of the city after crushing the citizens’ violent resistance, the so-called Berliner Unwillen.
The Australian election result was widely welcomed in Australia and abroad for its crushing defeat of Pauline Hanson and her racist One Nation Party.
The failure of so many foreign economies will soon hurt America, crushing both the stock market and consumer confidence.
The first bit I recall seeing involved Homer falling for the aggressive sales pitch of an RV salesman, and his willingness to bury his family under crushing debt in order to look like a big shot in the salesman's eyes, and theirs.