Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet Union takes the position that the Potsdam agreement is nonexistent," said Dulles, "the consequences of that would be not to destroy our rights in Berlin, because they don't rest upon the Potsdam agreement at all, but it might greatly compromise the territorial claims of Poland [to former German lands east of the Oder-Neisse line], which do rest upon the Potsdam agreement primarily...
...what seemed only a provocative flight of fancy, left-wing British Author George Orwell conjured up in his novel 1984 a nightmare vision of the ultimate totalitarian state: "In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy-everything. Already . . . no one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer. But in the future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth as one takes eggs from a hen . . . There will be no loyalty, except loyalty...
...melange of Chinese monarchical concepts and Marxist ideology. And behind the benevolent, Buddha-like gaze lie vast personal ambition and ruthless purpose. To a sentimental intellectual who once suggested that "Communism is Love," Mao replied: "No, comrade, Communism is not love; it is a hammer which we use to destroy the enemy...
...MOLE was successfully fired from its sinking site in Death Valley. It went into orbit at "depths variously reported as from a few inches to 60,000 ft." Two weeks later a senatorial committee clamped on the MOLE the megasecret classification of DBR (Destroy Before Reading...
Thus two facts present themselves: 1) the idea of purposive change must eventually destroy the eastern religions or be strangled by them; and 2) this idea of linear, purposive movement is based in the Christian faith, in which western culture has been grounded...