Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appears padded. The lyrics, excepting an occasional piece like "Come In" or "A Young Wretch," seem minor, and occasionally trite. Emphasizing the short line and two-syllable rhyme, poems like "A Considerable Speck" are characterized by occasional flashes of epigrammatic brilliance which, though causing a quick chortle, tend to destroy poetic unity and completeness. In extended form these epigrams frequently become rapid-fire social commentary, and here Frost seems beyond his depth. Knowing the farms and people of New England, he is lost when he strays into the maze of an international industrial society; and the bewildered fear that creeps...
...heard so little from these forces (in three weeks, only the Andamans raid and two on Rangoon were reported), Lewis Brereton knew the answer. Except in direst need, he was done with sending insufficient forces into battle. When he struck, he would strike with enough to defeat and destroy his enemies, the Japs across the Bay. It was a resolve, a policy which General Brereton had acquired the hard and bloody...
...four of the Houses use Newell Boathouse instead of Weld. If Newell were assigned to a group of House crews in rotating yeas, no unfairness would be created in the matter of walking distance to and from the respective boat house, and such an innovation, although it might destroy Newell as the sanctum sanctorum of the University crews, would far outweigh this doubtful disadvantage by relieving Weld of its late afternoon congestion...
...other Latin American country, has been fronting for the U.S-it was indeed fine to have what Franklin D. Roosevelt called "the so-called petroleum question" out of the way. The faintest suggestion that Uncle Shylock was more interested in his pound of flesh than in winning the war might destroy the whole Good Neighbor structure...
Further, their dispersion was in a relatively small area: they might go out as a fleet, to destroy a superior enemy in detail. In a swift hit-&-run battle in the fogs of the North Sea, a well-fought engagement might strike a body blow to the British Home Fleet...