Word: demolishes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wonder the young hitched a ride to another America: a sweet-smelling place of laughter and music and bad poetry, where a sugar cube under the tongue could demolish the authority of reason itself. The prankster visions of the Acid Tests swirled around the stark realities of American power, and the decade found its signature moments: a flower in a gun barrel, a Defense Secretary scowling out a Pentagon window at the hippies trying to levitate his fortress. When Lyndon Johnson announced that he would not seek re-election, in March 1968, he was tacitly admitting that the freaks might...
...cracked and doors hung askew. "You'd better get out," city inspectors advised. Within two hours, the Ragsdales and two dozen friends started filing in and out of the house like ants, loading a truck with the couple's possessions. A short time later, the Ragsdales were forced to demolish their house so that it would not slide into their neighbor's below...
Central Square residents have been battling Holmes since last spring, when the trust proposed to demolish four buildings that have stood since the turn of the century and replace them with an 11-story monolith. The Cambridge Planning Board will deliberate on Holmes' revised proposal tonight. If they give the go-ahead, the bulldozers would roll in early April...
...Holmes Realty Trust is poised to demolish this Central Square property. But conflict over the architecture of the building that will rise in place of these stores stopped the wrecking ball in its tracks earlier this month...
...bombing campaign the Clinton Administration has in mind, critics contend, would neither bring compliance with the U.N. nor remove Saddam. The bombs would demolish all hope of more inspections but would not stop Saddam from rebuilding his germ factories, and that would just provoke another military confrontation later...