Word: demolished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only a handful have followed suit. So the bootleg market rises, the plundering goes on and the split between scholars and collectors widens. All of which brings to mind the words of Alfred Jarry's monarch of absurdity, Pa Ubu: "Hornstrumpot! We shall not have succeeded-unless we demolish the ruins as well...
Harvard's varsity hockey team emerged Saturday night from a 19-day exam break to demolish NYC city club team St. Nicholas, 10-1, in an exhibition game scheduled primarily as practice for tonight's semifinal Beanpot contest against arch-rival Boston University...
...been built on the still unexcavated ruins that lie about 20 feet below the surface. Says Georges Fradier, a Frenchman who heads UNESCO'S "Save Carthage" mission in Tunis: "If the building boom goes on, Carthage will be really destroyed-this time for good. Nobody is going to demolish a new city in order to dig up an old city...
Contempt...or Godard, the master of pretension, with a big budget to play around with and a Moravia short story to demolish. With Pierrot le Fou, a self-serving and clumsy Godard comic-book romance, with a naive artist-gangster as the hero, and topical references sprinkled throughout to no great purpose. ORSON WELLES CINEMA TWO. Call...
These fanciful notions are not putons, Author Morgan says, and she insists: "I am deadly in earnest." But scientists find it easy to demolish her ideas. Physical Anthropologist Ian Tattersall of the American Museum of Natural History notes, for example, that Homo sapiens never made any of the physical adaptations for swimming and "breathing" under water that are exhibited by true aquatic mammals. In fact, in refuting Hardy's aquatic theory, scientists have pointed to ample proof that man has been a land-based creature for the past 15 million years or so. Furthermore, Tattersall notes, there...