Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rejection of the view which glorifies the collective aim. To argue that the rights of the individual are a purely utilitarian invention is to deprive the underlying American ideal of its cutting edge. You can build a free nation on a Christian view of human destiny. You can destroy it by substituting another...
...campaign to relieve Stalingrad the Russians concentrated on the Luftwaffe transports; Moscow claimed the destruction of 46 in one day, 60 in another, 225 in seven days. The Germans apparently still had advanced airdromes for most of their armies, still had transports. Upon the Russians' ability to destroy these airlines to the German islands, victory might swing...
...main object of the Allies was to destroy Axis ports of entry along the Mediterranean. They attacked from the east as well as the west. As long ago as the middle of December, the Allied High Command decided that the Germans intended to make their last stand for North Africa in Tunisia. Allied strategists believed that Rommel would continue to retreat, delaying the British Eighth Army all he could, but keeping his battered troops intact. In Tunisia he would combine forces with General Walther Nehring and present a hard, solid front...
...progressive rapprochement among the members of the Anglo-Soviet-American coalition and their uniting in a single fighting alliance." This was a frank approach to the post-war world, as realistically sensible as Stalin's expressed ideas on dealings with Germany. "Our aim," he said, "is not to destroy all armed force in Germany, because any intelligent man will understand that this is as impossible in the case of Germany as in the case of Russia. It would be unreasonable on the part of the victor to do so. To destroy Hitler's army is possible and necessary...
...west, had not fallen. Nor had the center of the snake-like line between captured Buna and captured Gona. The Japs were so well supplied and had dug in so strongly that they had to be dug out almost man by man. As one correspondent put it: "Destroy your opinions of this as a little side show. The numbers of men involved and the strategic importance of the objectives are relative things anyhow. Nowhere in the world today are American soldiers engaged in fighting so desperate, so merciless, so bitter, or so bloody...