Word: demolishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Britons are waxing prematurely nostalgic for the bitter Brussels sprouts and lumpy "brown Windsor" soup that have turned passengers' stomachs for decades. Plans to demolish London's dark, satanic Euston Station have stirred protests that read as if the bulldozers were marching on Buckingham Palace. Britain's trains, in fact, are not markedly more uncertain, uncomfortable or unwashed than railways the world over, but Englishmen like to think they...
Dupree will demolish the present Infirmary before beginning construction on the riverfront property...
...city, looms like a ghost ship from the banks of the Moldau River. Unveiled in 1955, after three years of steady chiseling, the 56-ft.-high statue of Stalin stands atop a 40-ft. base, flanked by eight slightly smaller figures representing workers, soldiers, scientists. Instead of bothering to demolish the colossus, people were whispering in Prague cafés last week that Comrade Novotny could simply cut off the heads of the eight statues and label the edifice: "In memory of the victims of Stalinism...
...historical events of our century had a great impact on Jewish history: the Russian Revolution and World War II. Both served to physically and culturally demolish what had been extremely flourishing centers of Jewish thought...
...point amidst the amiability and the inability to reach every agreement, Khrushchev broke out in one of his flights of rocket rhetoric. "Technicians make me laugh," he said, "when they argue over the question of whether five or maybe six rockets armed with thermonuclear warheads might be needed to demolish Great Britain. We have at least twelve already pointed at that target." And then, looking at his guest, Khrushchev remarked that Italy, with its allied missile bases, could expect its share. "This is not a threat," he added with a straight face, "just a warning...