Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the CCA remains in the minority, it can hope to make progress principally through compromise with the independents. But if it regains dominance and shed that check on its action, it is in the position to destroy the social balance of the city. Of the present CCA Councillors, only Mrs. Wise has so far expressed concern for this aspect of Cambridge life...
Modern technology is threatening to destroy the remains of 5,000 years of cultural history unless a UNESCO comission headed by John O. Brew, Director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, can roll back the waters of the Nile...
...Harvard withdraws from the N.D.E.A. program, the Council fears it will be forced to reject any program which requires the University to administer similar disclaimer affidavits. "A hasty decision to reject funds could destroy the educational plans of a large number of graduate students," the statement continued...
With all the elaborate ceremony that characterizes such occasions under the Fifth Republic, President Charles de Gaulle this week inaugurates the first pipeline to send French oil flowing from the Sahara to an Algerian port on the Mediterranean. If the Algerian rebels do not almost immediately destroy enough of the pipeline to make it inoperative, it will be an exercise of remarkable restraint on their part. For after five years of fighting, the French Army is in no position to protect a pipeline, nor even to undertake less imposing tasks of policing...
...failures, however, have not been complete: while helping to destroy the myth that all school boards and trustees were negligent in failing to institute revised schedules, they provided a far clearer understanding of the potential, as well as of the inherent difficulties, of trying to modify the academic year...