Word: demolishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Puzzle. All this seemed like a tremendous effort to demolish news reports. It became apparent that what bothered the White House was the idea that the President had ordered the ceasefire. Truman did not want a letdown in morale either in the U.S. or on the Korean front. Nor did he want the Communists to get any idea that he was ready to try appeasement. The Communists' goal is a cease-fire without other agreements. The U.S. wants a ceasefire, plus inspection behind both lines to prevent buildups for a surprise attack, and an agreement for exchange of prisoners...
Obviously, Harvard would create much ill-will if it tore down these buildings and the people had no place to live, although a year ago it was able to demolish one of its tenements at 7 Cowperthwaite Street...
When the tan, barrack-type buildings were put up in 1946, the City provided that they must be torn down in five years. The deadline was last February, but the University asked for an extension until the summer to demolish the houses to prevent turning veterans and ther families out during winter and school months...
However it got there, Bacteriologist Marsh didn't think the mouse could do the drink any harm. With the air of a man about to demolish an argument, the plaintiff's lawyer got up to cross-examine. Would you drink it? he asked. Sure, said Witness Marsh calmly. The lawyer handed him Exhibit One. Homer Marsh gulped the liquid down. "Can't get the mouse down," he said apologetically...
...Scripter Lesser Samuels make up for that with sensational incidents (e.g., a woman spits in the Negro doctor's face) and dialogue strewn with virtually every known epithet for Negroes. They draw the line at showing much of the race riot-in which the Negroes ambush and demolish the mob that plans to attack them-but the detailed scenes leading up to it are charged with venom...