Word: demolish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Workers have been using two jack-hammers to demolish a thick concrete slab beneath the dining hall. During Wednesday's question-and-answer session, discussion was punctuated by vibrations and loud hammering from the basement beneath the dining hall...
...would be nice if "Schindler's List" could be all the things that people want it to be--a shocking portrayal of the Holocaust in all its atrocity, a movie that will reach every person in America, a film that in one blow will demolish all ignorance about the Holocaust...
...must demolish the barriers ofdiscrimination that have trapped people in pocketsof poverty," said Cisneros. "People who are lockedinto difficult situations by forces they cannotcontrol cannot empower themselves...
...Abkhazian drive succeeds, it could mark the beginning of the ultimate dismemberment of Georgia as other ethnic minorities, bent on fulfilling their own dreams of independence, followed suit. Equally menacing to stability, an Abkhazian victory would demolish Shevardnadze's credibility as the only leader capable of holding the country together. That danger prompted him to issue a televised call to arms, appealing "to all men with guns to go to defend Sukhumi." Together with his physician, cook and the rest of his personal staff, Shevardnadze headed for the embattled city, pledging to remain with the defenders "until the last drop...
...exacting a death toll they cannot tolerate; neither can the blacks shoot their way to power. By joining hands in a multiracial transition council, they can lift the international sanctions that have beggared them both. Such realizations come hard, over a long arc of years, after all attempts to demolish the enemy are done...