Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...balance to Russian origin. Making an even less exact calculation, U.S. experts guesstimate that the Russians must have something like 3,000 nuclear weapons. The U.S. may have at least three times that, but it does not make much difference: nuclear parity is achieved when each has enough to destroy the other...
...that enabled him to make his offer; as always, he remained the man above party. In the coming elections, he said, he would "not disapprove" of any party's support, nor would he discourage opponents who "will make use of the liberty they accuse me of wanting to destroy." But his mission ruled out his taking any particular party's side. "This impartiality obliges me to insist that my name, even in the form of an adjective, not be utilized by any group or candidate." Nevertheless, politicians of almost every stripe tumbled all over themselves...
Being interested in the problems of disarmament, I decided to attend the meeting this evening of the Committee on Disarmament and became, accidentlly, a witness of the obstructionist tactics which were used to destroy the Committee at that meeting. The events of that meeting were not only a disgrace to Harvard, they indicated an actual threat to the right of Harvard and Radcliffe students to form organizations organizations or to meet freely for the discussion of whatever subjects they may choose. In view of the fact that similar obstructionists tactics were tried during the formation of the Socialist Club...
...Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. Russia's greatest living poet affirms in Russia's greatest novel since the Revolution that not even Communism can destroy his people's hopes and humanity...
Defects in the NSA are due basically to its size, and could be eliminated through a more adequate system of representation. The group suggested that Harvard students use their ability and influence to build up the NSA, not to destroy...