Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caterpillars on the branches of the trees." Toward novel's end, the boy tastes bitter desolation when his stepfather is assigned a new post, and it appears that Serioja's health may force the family to leave him behind. At the last moment, seeing that parting will destroy the child, the stepfather scoops him up in a happy ending that is movingly true to the essential spirit of the book...
...were writing more seriously, Author Love might well include a soldier who certainly led his own life, constantly asking his comrades how they felt about death, marveling at the spectacle of war, wondering at man's urge to destroy. That man would have been Lieut. Glenn Gray, writing to a friend on the riddle of cruelty: "Joy and beauty have many different faces, but brutality and hatred have but few. I have come to the extremity of knowing beyond all doubt that there is no other way for me to survive this period except the hard Christian...
...attempt to dominate the state schools and destroy their autonomy, the proposed move is a violation of the agreement that state schools would maintain their freedom and independence if they accepted the act--an understanding without which the act would not have passed. It represents the perpetual tendency of some Senators and their confreres to attempt to dominate everything they can get their hands on and should serve as a warning to those who have claimed that the acceptance of Federal funds need not constitute a surrender of freedom...
...split in the Law School faculty centers around these two issues: whether it is better to destroy some of the precepts of Federalism or to violate double jeopardy, one of the oldest concepts in Anglo-American...
Addressing himself to the present situation of tension between the two great national states of the world, Russia and America, Munoz asserted that fear in the Soviet Union that Americans are trying to destroy them, has driven the Russians to absorb the neighboring states as buffers against possible frontal attacks by the United States. The West then answered with a policy of containment and developed a defensive ring around the "Russian-Chinese giant...