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Word: demolishment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...choosing to order the complete demolition and apply the moratorium, "[developers] would have an incentive to demolish historic landmarks," warns Sullivan...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: Showdown at 1564 Mass. Ave. | 10/19/1984 | See Source »

...talk, the 75-year-old visitor will be escorted through the Rose Garden to the Family Dining Room. There will be some chilled Stolichnaya vodka from Mother Russia to wash down Chesapeake blue crabs out of Chef Henry Haller's imaginative kitchen. Old Grom can demolish succulent rolled veal, served on Lyndon Johnson's china and set off with a California wine. Finally, Gromyko will be escorted to the diplomatic doorway in the back of the White House for his exit, far from probing cameras and obstreperous reporters. It is a vantage point with a magnificent panorama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Just Like Old Times | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

...jealous brute who will beat his wife and try to demolish her store? Yes-and he will plead with Lena (in the film's most affecting scene) to help him reconstruct his fantasy of a happy marriage. Does Madeleine have every right to desert the sleazy Costa? Of course-but in doing so she follows her star, at least temporarily, right out of Lena's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Woman Talk | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...shopping center bought a rent-controlled building located on property it already owned. Officials of the shopping center planned to demolish the building to provide a parking lot for customers at Sears, one of the businesses in the center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: High Court Upholds City Removal Ordinance | 10/18/1983 | See Source »

Then the 19 commandos appeared, wearing civilian clothes (with identifying red armbands) and carrying automatic weap ons, rockets and enough high explosives to demolish the building. Attacking simultaneously, some of the guerrillas blasted a hole in the concrete wall with an antitank gun and swarmed through it; others quickly scaled a rear fence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WORLD 1969: The War The General's Gamble | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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