Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British claimed Gandhi's program of disruption called for: 1) closing shops to destroy public morale; 2) interference with telephone & telegraph lines; 3) fomenting strikes in munitions and war materiel factories; 4) interference with A.R.P. services; 5) dislocating transport; 6) a strike by lawyers...
...flaming Cologne the night 1,000 R.A.F. bombers plastered that German city with destruction. The same warrior face, on a British Ministry of Information poster, now is going to Russia above this message: "We lost 44 planes on that raid, but we are prepared to give our lives to destroy Fascism, as you are giving yours. The Fascists will not be able to stand the hell we shall give them together...
...Tommy gunners took to trees along roadsides to pick off Red infantry. In groups of four, one would operate the gun, the others spot approaching enemies. The Russians called them kukushkas (cuckoos) and sent their best soldiers out to destroy them, with orders not to fire at more than 165 yards...
...polio virus, he wrote, does not always destroy all the nerve cells leading to the paralyzed muscles-but often sends the muscles into spasm, painful contraction or twitching. If spasm is relieved, the nerve cells which remain alive can substitute for those which have been destroyed. The danger of paralysis lies mainly in allowing spasm to continue...
Democracies, according to Kohn, are much freer from corruption than dictatorships, for dictatorships will not allow people to say what they want and publicize corrupt officials. "The best way to destroy corruption is to publicize it," said Kohn...