Word: demolished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part, Con Ed claims to be improving the area's natural beauty. The old buildings along the water front below Storm King are dilapidated, and the company plans to demolish them and fill in a mile of river shallows for a 57-acre park...
...Jumbos rely on an extremely strong batting attack. Against Northeastern, considered early in the season to be the GBL's best team. Tufts fell behind by five runs, only to demolish the Huskies in the last innings...
...increase the strike's impact, some students might be tempted to take more militant actions such as attempting to shut down; possibly by violence, ROTC buildings and other on-campus symbols of the military. Far from being strong blows against the military, such actions would be like trying to demolish the Pentagon with a few slingshots. Universities do provide some services to the military, but these services can be-and undoubtedly will be, if necessary-procured through other channels such as expanded military academies and government-operated research laboratories. At most, militant campaigns against ROTC and defense research can impose...
...wreckings-followed by interment of the beasts-were a common protest against the internal-combustion engine. Some students at Florida Technological University held a trial to condemn a Chevrolet for poisoning the air; they tried to demolish it with a sledgehammer, but the car resisted so sturdily that the students finally shrugged and offered it to an art class for a sculpture project...
...thousand days have passed since Israeli jets and tanks swept out of a June sunrise to demolish Arab air power in five hours and Arab armies in six days. Since then, the Middle East balance has scarcely shifted, despite Arab threats of renewed war and big-power efforts toward peace. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's war of attrition, designed "to regain by force that which was taken by force," has been foiled by successful Israeli reprisals and pre-emptive strikes. The result is a war of stalemate-what Guerrilla Leader Yasser Arafat last week called...