Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much more than a nationalist movement. It was a strategic contest of the first importance, in which time was a crucial factor. The immediate stake was the oil of Iraq, and last week's scrimmages suggested that the British might not have time or strength systematically to destroy the wells and refineries before the Germans arrived in force. The secondary stake was the Suez Canal...
...shall have to make up our minds to go on and on at any cost, to reconquer Europe and destroy Hitler there, even with American man power-or turn back; and if we turn back we shall be remembered forever as the Falstaff nation of the world, boasting of a power it did not really possess. . . . In going on we face the possibility of defeat. . . . But to go back is to face the possibility of national death. . . . That is the reality as we see it; that is the reality we accept...
Like Freud, he helped destroy the 18th-and 19th-Century illusion that man is a rational creature. Like William Graham Sumner (Folkways), he disturbed civilization by disclosing the relativity of morals...
...Golden Bough was abridged to one inexpensive volume. Gilbert Murray, famed classical scholar at Oxford, "with a thrill of alarm" hailed it as "a dangerous book." Said he: "Frazer tends to destroy [Christianity] by merely showing how old it is. ... The most mystical Christian doctrines . . . appear as commonplaces of savage superstition, sometimes revolting, sometimes in their way sublime. ..." Others were less upset. Wrote John Peale Bishop of The Golden Bough: "By extending [Christianity's] existence into the dark backward and abyss of time, it has gained not only the respectability of age, but another authenticity...
...could the Nazis destroy all freedom, brutally persecute intelligent minorities, regiment the individual, half-starve the whole population, and yet retain the support of an overwhelming majority of Germans...