Word: demolishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perfect scapegoat, but the widow, recognizing the incompetence of Steiger's bumbling staff, demands that Poitier be put on the case. To Poitier this is an ironic challenge. He is uppity enough to welcome the chance to put on airs with impunity, and he proceeds to demolish Steiger's plan of attack with a gusto that borders on the sadistic. Thus the inevitable rift between the two men is more than merely a matter of race; it involves professional pride as well...
...salesman's shirt. Other salesman blinks, frowns, and throws brick through window. Homeowner throws brick through windshield of salesmen's car. Salesmen attack homeowner's piano with axes, swat vases with spade handles. Homeowner tears off car headlights, doors, gas tank and sets auto ablaze. Salesmen demolish house, dig up lawn, hack down trees and shrubbery...
...took De Gaulle just 20 minutes to demolish the hopes of Britain and his own Common Market partners. In words and tone that were more severe than when he vetoed the British the last time, De Gaulle raised every hurdle he could think of against letting the British in. "For our part, it cannot be, nor was it ever, a question of a veto," said De Gaulle. The problem was rather, he added slyly, how to surmount the obstacles to British entry that Prime Minister Harold Wilson's own "great clearsightedness and deep experience had characterized as formidable...
Colburn recovered from his defeat to demolish the freshman half-mile record in a sizzling...
Nancy Williams and Harvey Hacker '59, second year students in Ronald Gourley's class at the Design School, yesterday won first and second prize for their easy-to-assemble-easy to-demolish tents for the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art's annual Gallery-Go-Round...