Word: despoil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even if your painting flops completely, Churchill philosophically concluded, there is no harm done except to your own ego. "And then you can always go out and kill some animal, humiliate some rival on the links, or despoil some friend across the green table...
...coinage and the postage stamps of the country bear the figure of Mary, the Mother of Mankind. It would be all the more tragic, therefore, if a people so devoted to Mary, the Jewish Maiden who was the Mother of the Messiah, freely countenance cruel laws calculated to despoil and annihilate the race from which Jesus and Mary sprang...