Word: demolishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whitwell Elwin was no ordinary Victorian clergyman. He was rich enough to demolish his parish church and build a new one, bold enough to design the blueprint himself. When Elwin's parishioners fell ill, "his Rev" (as he was called) was their doctor; when his wife had children, he acted as midwife. He had amiable eccentricities, such as cutting the Communion bread "into small squares, some for the communicants and some for his canaries." But the favorite hobby of this self-assured, broadminded parson was corresponding with growing girls, listening to their troubles and helping them with affectionate advice...
...then the "new" buildings have deteriorated, and large areas surrounding the downtown Loop district have long since turned into slums. Last week a group of Chicago business men announced a bold plan to cure this costly civic sore. The plan: spend $400 million in the next seven years to demolish the cheap hotels, rooming houses and honky-tonks that greet visitors approaching Chicago's thriving Loop, replace them with a cluster of new buildings and parks...
...mere threat of intervention by men who are ill-trained for administrative matters, who are organized for debate, not action, who lack staffs adequate even for their own tasks, and who are all too often moved by politics pure and simple, would be enough. It would be enough to demolish what remains of morale after years of abuse and charges of communism and homosexuality. It would be enough to destroy the already indifferent efficiency of an overgrown government. No doubt Congress is the best agency for charting courses, but it is worse than useless for sailing them...
...Princetonian plea continues, "For years Princeton partisans have been spoiled. They have expected to see a perfect team, a virtual touchdown-machine, demolish its opponents at will. No team can keep up such a record forever without the sort of professionalism that none of us would want to see. After all, there are other schools in the League, too, and occasionally some of them will have teams that can beat us or even rent...
...considered the sooty old building an eyesore, Philadelphians were fond of its ornate decorations and neo-Gothic gingerbread, liked to recall that it was once the world's biggest station. As the train left, the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra played Auld Lang Syne. Then wreckers went to work to demolish the building and the 40-ft.-high unsightly "Chinese wall" over which the trains had come into the station...