Word: demolishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This continuing cost-price squeeze on agriculture chilled but did not demolish the optimism that Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson has been displaying about farm prospects. Benson still insists that farmers stand to average somewhat higher prices and incomes than in 1956. Buttressing his opinion were some hopeful facts. Hog and cattle prices are better than last year; the broiler industry appears to be overcoming a surplus problem, and dairymen are producing and selling more than last year. The Government's price-depressing hoard of surplus wheat, cotton and corn is slowly being whittled away. And this year farmers...
...Candide. Voltaire used the Lisbon affair to demolish the fashionable interpretation of the Leibnitz philosophy by which every happening was necessary and therefore good. Candide and Dr. Pangloss had a terrible time in the earthquake, despite their good characters; only a "brutal sailor" did well out of the disaster, happy in the ruins with loot, wine and women. Thus Voltaire derided the notion that those who have bad luck must deserve it. Some men as sensible as Voltaire, and more charitable, recalled what Jesus said on the occasion of a mishap in the Holy Land: "Those eighteen, upon whom...
Worldwide superstition long decreed that almost all abnormalities in newborn children-from port-wine stain to the absence of a limb-were the result of shock suffered by the mother during pregnancy. Medical science seemed to demolish these old wives' tales, but now, as a result of exact, deductive reasoning, it is coming to believe that in some few cases, at least, the old wives were right...
...AFUS! Pride and tradition are the services' lifeblood-and this would be the death blow to each. The same uniform-bah! The same promotion list-phooey! Would our intrepid young flyers ever consent to this? Would you demolish the Halls of Montezuma? Would you assassinate Benny Havens? Would you desecrate the Navy Blue and Gold? The effectiveness of any armed force lies chiefly in the morale and spirit of its components and not in a cold, efficient, economic steamroller...
...satellite army divisions that already exists. Command will continue to be in Moscow, the top brass will still be Russian, and the troops will still be of as dubious loyalty as before. But by making a show of erecting an overall organization, Bulganin could also promise to demolish it. "The treaty will become invalid," he said, when "a European system of collective security is established." How can collective security be established...