Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are many motives and mechanisms. Most striking motive, albeit unconscious, is "the psychological equivalent of murder . . . an endeavor to destroy the other person (for which there is no legal penalty). Also common, says Dr. Searles, is the need to get rid of "threatening craziness in oneself," achieved by telling another member of the family, "You're crazy." Most powerful of all, thinks Dr. Searles, is the utterly unconscious need to drive somebody else crazy so that an unhealthy state of mutual dependence can continue despite anxieties and frustrations...
...Protestants want to destroy the deep-rooted faith of Spanish Catholics is a mystery. Millions of human beings throughout the world have never even heard the name of Jesus; yet Protestants want to continue spending their time and money dividing Christianity...
...Louis Joseph Abbate and Michael Louis Falcone, union-hired hoods, lightly sentenced (three months each) by an Illinois court for a plot to blow up Bell Telephone equipment, later got stiffer sentences (three years, one year) in U.S. court for conspiracy to destroy U.S.-used communications lines...
...efforts to cure victims of massive overdoses of radiation, and to turn this new-won skill to advantage in treating victims of acute leukemia. Nub of the problem is the fact that the human blood system responds automatically to the presence of foreign protein by developing antibodies to destroy it. This is why skin grafts and organ transplants do not "take'' permanently, except between identical twins...
Radiation in doses exceeding about 400 r. (for roentgen) is usually fatal because it destroys the bone marrow's blood-forming mechanism, and it incidentally suppresses the antibody reaction. Theoretically, it should be possible to cure many cases of radiation injury by injecting bone-marrow cells from donors while the patient's antibody production is knocked out. And in acute leukemia, when the bone marrow is secreting abnormal cells, it might be possible to destroy the marrow deliberately with massive radiation, then replace it with healthy marrow. It has worked in mice and dogs, but the human system...