Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many U.S. citizens reacted with an emotional belch. They apparently forgot two essential realities: 1) the Soviet Union, far from rising as a new danger, was fighting for its life; 2) the better fight it puts up, the more it weakens the power of Nazi Germany to destroy democracy throughout the world...
...least an all-out destruction of communications, factories, shipping and harbor facilities. He wanted to convince the British that if Russia accepted the German demands, it would result in a virtual fighting alliance between Russia and Germany against the English-speaking and anti-Communistic world-an alliance which would destroy both...
...sunrises and seascapes. He wore a five-gallon hat, called himself the "first white child born in Wichita." And he was hell on his own paintings. He often advised prospective customers not to buy them, often slashed them up, sometimes even bought back pictures he had sold, just to destroy them...
...President Roosevelt in an open letter to Chairman Emory-Land of the Maritime Commission declared: "I know . . . that more and faster ships will be built, manned by trained American seamen, and that they will carry through the open waters of the seven seas implements that will help destroy the menace to free peoples everywhere...
Getting there first is one job the Navy could successfully take on. Only deterrent to preventive occupation last week was not Navy realism, but the U.S. State Department. For any such blow at Vichy would destroy the last diplomatic threads between Washington and Petain, might even commit the U.S. to fighting where the Navy would have a harder time...