Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made for war and women for warriors' pleasures. To a world whose capacity for indignation too rapidly becomes fatigued, a letter from one of these girls, published last week,* came as a blazing reminder of the sufferings of a people which barbarism has always attempted to destroy...
Locust females of the three varieties found in Middle Afro-Asia lay several hundred eggs each (by backing into the ground) which grow in a few weeks to winged adults from inch-long size to finger-length miniature bombers, can cross oceans. Experience has shown locusts had best be destroyed in their youth before they gang up and get off the ground. So observers watch their breeding spots. Since last February R.A.F. pilots patrolling the Red Sea have watched for locust swarms as well as enemy aircraft. First step is to destroy the egg emplacements, then spread poison weak enough...
...resolved to "restore the social order in Mexico destroyed by liberalism, pseudo democracy and anarchism; ... to destroy the Revolution...
...Meet Defeat. "When a man is faced with a very difficult problem or a series of them . . . when things become too difficult, there are just three sorts of things he can do." The three: work at it harder, from new angles; get mad and attempt to destroy the obstacle, or himself, or something else; give up in despair and sit in apathy or run away...
Then Sergei and Fyodor were sent to a German-occupied town "to destroy . . . anything ... of any value to the enemy." On the outskirts of the town they met an old peasant woman who offered to help them. They were suddenly attacked by two Germans, Fyodor drove his knife into the body of one; Sergei twisted a short piece of rope around the other's throat...