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Word: demolishes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this is only the start of a three-stage campaign that could last several weeks. As allied bombs continue to fall on the Yugoslav air-defense network, NATO will increasingly go after the tanks, artillery and armored vehicles the Serbs are using to demolish villages in Kosovo. In Phase Two, the allied pilots will focus on hitting the Serb forces spreading carnage inside Kosovo and staging just north of the province...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into The Fire | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...quite different sort here in Cambridge surprisingly won a round in its bracket this week, defeating a more powerful and bigger opponent. The Swedenborg Chapel was named an historical landmark by the City Council on Tuesday night, thereby protecting it from a Somerville developer's plan to demolish the building and raise a housing development in its place. The Council's decision preserves the outside of the Chapel from being destroyed or blocked from view. The inside is not protected because the Historical Commission does not consider interiors for landmark designation (though the council has requested a re-evaluation...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Owning the Glass | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...chapel's designation as a protected landmark effectively ends a Somerville real estate developer's plans to demolish the building...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Swedenborgen Chapel Named Historical Site | 3/16/1999 | See Source »

...totalitarianism. "I have a goal, I charge straight at it... We must reconstitute the foundations of our life. We must return to the primal integrity..." Though Berenger appeals to him in the name of civilization and morality, Jean is unstoppable. He charges the walls, grunting almost incomprehensibly, "Let's demolish all of that! We'll be better off without it" and at last, fully a rhinoceros, he turns on his friend and tries to trample him down as well...

Author: By Jerome L. Martin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rhino Hysteria in an Absurdist World | 1/8/1999 | See Source »

Early on in the race for the eighth, there was a fear that the wrangling of identity politics, long a contentious issue for moderate Democrats, would demolish any hope of one candidate being elected with a mandate...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, | Title: A Tale of Two Eighth District Voters | 9/16/1998 | See Source »

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