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Word: demolishing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...capital. U.S. Presidents generally, one is encouraged to assume, should be placed only a few points to the right of pit vipers on the lovability scale. In such a context, Richard Monckton's somber and tormented meanness, his attempts to subvert the FBI and the CIA and demolish all political enemies seem par for the presidential curse-and almost human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modified, Limited Hangout | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

...Cambodia, and by Washington bureaucrats, many of them still Kennedy-era holdovers who leaked presidential secrets to Nixon's "enemies" in the press. It was back then, midway through his first term, according to Pulitzer-prize winning Journalist J. Anthony Lukas, that Nixon set out to totally demolish his various tormentors. The result was the pageant of buggings, break-ins, dirty tricks and dirty money that led to Watergate and has now preoccupied the U.S. public for so long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 5/17/1976 | See Source »

...deafening. People work fast, unscrewing lights, taking out wires, ripping up tapes and hammering out every nail to save wood for future productions. Most of the people striking are crew from Godspell, the next show scheduled in the theater. Maybe that's why they seem so happy to demolish the set. One person on the techie circuit explained he spends every other Saturday striking a set of some sort. "I'm just here to rip it apart," he says. Douglas Hughes is hurrying because he's president of the Premiere Society and he claims they pay by the minute...

Author: By Mercedes A. Laing, | Title: BEHIND THE GREENROOM DOOR | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...council also voted last night to demolish the building at 158-168 Pearl St. near Central Square. The building has been attacked as "dangerous and unlawful" by health officials and residents over the past year

Author: By Henry Griggs, | Title: Council Hears Plan to Boost Water Bill for City, Schools | 12/9/1975 | See Source »

...together on the ten yard line, fund-raisers from the class of 1947 sit together on the fifty. But here it is not class against class; it is Harvard against Yale. With all the ferocity of rivals who are more alike than dissimiliar, the fans exhort their team to demolish the oppostion. They chant cheers as refined as "Fair Harvard" or "Bingo, bingo, that's the lingo" (written by Cole Porter, Yale '13), and as unrefined as "A quart is two pints, a gallon is four quarts; Harvard men will eat Yale's shorts." While on the field...

Author: By Robert L. Ullman, | Title: Clotheslines and Leather | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

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