Word: demolishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favorite-and then refused to take any bets. There were rows of empty $7 seats at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens; the 38 theater proprietors who piped in the closed-circuit telecast took their lumps when only 50,000 fans turned out -v. 250,000 who watched Clay demolish Floyd Patterson last November...
Britain's Plan. Ryan also draws on long-forgotten documents to demolish the notion that Franklin Roosevelt drew up the zones of occupation for Germany. Actually, the plan was Britain's. F.D.R. was first shown the occupation plans in 1943, when he was aboard the U.S.S. Iowa on his way to the Cairo and Teheran conferences. He was both ir ritated and troubled, says Ryan, because the British plan, called Operation Rankin, placed the U.S. zone in the southern German provinces. "We should go as far as Berlin," Roosevelt said. "The U.S. should have Berlin. The Soviets...
...group, spawned during a lunch conversation, fears that the University may some day demolish the entire hall. A new clock tower, they believe, would make the building too "aesthetically appealing" to destroy...
...University, which bought the property for a reported $1 million, will now have to decide whether to move Sparks House again or demolish...
...talked for 56 minutes straight - partly about his boy hood bouts with pimples, caused by lack of sex. And at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Cassius Clay, alias Muhammad Ali, spat carefully on the floor while Eddie Fisher was singing The Star-Spangled Banner. Clay, 23, then proceeded to demolish Floyd Patterson, 30, in defense of the heavyweight championship of the world...