Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anti-death penalty forces have been reeling since the mug of Willie Horton shone in homes across America almost 10 years ago. But now questions about the morality of capital punishment have resurfaced, hopefully in a form that will destroy one of the last remnants of institutional barbarism in American society...
...Diana was done with discretion, both politically and emotionally. She said at one point, "I mean, once or twice I've had people say to me that, you know, that Diana's out to destroy the monarchy, which bewilders me, because why would I want to destroy something that is my children's future? I will fight for my children on any level in order for them to be happy and have peace of mind and carry out their duties...
...Maggie Gallagher, who is affiliated with the Institute for American Values and is the author of The Abolition of Marriage: How We Destroy Lasting Love, rejects the charge that reforming divorce laws is a hothouse, right-wing issue. "The real reason that public opinion has changed is not because a small group of very clever people have been manipulating it but because as more and more social-science data accumulated, a number of prominent family scholars changed their minds. As more ordinary Americans had actual experience of what happens with a 50% divorce rate, they too became concerned...
...overpowering imperative in Cunanan's life, it was envy: of someone else's money, lover, looks, friends, life, happiness. If he saw things he wanted, he would worm his way toward them, through charm, intrusion and lies, traversing divergent worlds to possess or, as it turns out, to destroy. A flamboyant presence in Hillcrest, San Diego's gay district, he was also once "employed" by a member of Gamma Mu, the exclusive and discreet fraternity of rich gay men. Even as he mingled with closeted military men at San Diego's naval base, he knew how to deal drugs: give...
...Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints suffered because their vision of themselves and the universe was different from those of the people around them. Their tormentors portrayed them as a nation within a nation, radical communalists who threatened the economic order and polygamists out to destroy the American family. Attacked in print, and physically by mobs, some 30,000 were forced to flee their dream city of Nauvoo, Ill., in 1846. Led by their assassinated founder's successor, they set out on a thousand-mile trek westward derided by nonbelievers as being as absurd as their faith...