Word: demolishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French restaurants, fully 21 are owned and staffed by Gourinois. They range from the East Side's L'Escargot (which serves a Breton specialty, homard à l'Armoricain, for $5) through the West Side's Café des Sports, where for $1.80 a customer can demolish a head of lamb, drink two glasses of extraordinary vin ordinaire, and talk soccer with Proprietor Lucien Lozach, a former goalkeeper himself, who is keener on scores than on scullery...
Royal Yokel. In that time an arrogant young upstart was transformed into a chastened commander with an inglorious but practical strategy: fight in small detachments, hit and run, scorch the earth, demolish captured castles. In a single year of maniacal activity and stunning hardship, Bruce reconquered two-thirds of Scotland and during the next five years he successively reduced almost all the major English fortresses north of the border. "On any showing," says Historian Barrow, "this must be reckoned one of the great military enterprises of British history...
That would increase the value of gold reserves, but it would correspondingly devalue the dollar because more dollars would be required to buy a given quantity of gold. Devaluation would demolish world confidence in the dollar, cause grave losses to friendly countries that had not cashed in their dollars for gold, and probably lead to a collapse of international monetary cooperation. The main beneficiaries would be the two greatest gold producers: South Africa and Russia. But money men are desperately searching for ways to increase the stock of gold, which is now worth $45 billion at the fixed price...
...said solemnly, "is always right." Well, almost. Old Stripper Fifi, the Cardinals' favorite fortuneteller, did predict that St. Louis would win the National League pennant - on the last day of the 1964 season. Of course, she also predicted that the Cards would need only five games to demolish the New York Yankees. But no baseball player is going to knock a .500 batting average - let alone .750. And last week Fifi made it three-for-four, as the gritty Cardinals humbled the heavily favored Yankees in the World Series, four games to three...
...urban renewal money, $15 million, will be used to buy the land in Kendall Square, demolish the present buildings, improve the area's utilities, and make general improvement--all in preparation for the NASA complex...