Word: demolishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Having gambled everything in the hope that their relatives and friends would be able to find work in the U.S. and send money home, the residents of Petit- Trou are discovering that the refugees' return did more than demolish expectations; it has also robbed the town of all vitality. In a community already knocked flat by poverty, the returnees have come to make up a separate and uniquely destitute class, devoid of land, possessions and hope. Having sold everything but what they could carry, they own nothing. Farmers can no longer till because someone else has title to their land...
Heptulla said BJP leaders last December incited a crowd of Hindus to demolish the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, India, for the party's political advancement. Many Hindus believe the Babri Mosque's location is the birthplace...
Columbia originally planned to demolish the entire ballroom, but university trustees decided to preserve parts of the Audubon after widespread protests...
...after Cornell was Princeton. Obviously frustrated by the loss, the Crimson rebounded the next morning to demolish Yale...
...sounds like something from a screwball comedy: two sweethearts coo at each other by night and then turn around and try to demolish each other by day. But that's the life of Mary Matalin, George Bush's campaign field director, and James Carville, Bill Clinton's chief strategist. The two are in love, and at war, at the same time...