Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese Christians," thinks Mr. Barnett, "can teach Americans a lot." A symbol of their spirit is the paperweight on his Manhattan desk - a fragment of the bomb with which a Japanese plane com pletely destroyed the big Y auditorium at Chungking two days before he got there last June. Though Chungking's Y has now been bombed five times, the work goes on regardless. Says its dogged Chinese general secretary: "They may destroy all our buildings, but they can't destroy...
Lenin had warned: "The counterrevolution develops in exact proportion as the revolution develops." Better than anybody, Communists knew that the experience of the ex-fellow travelers was by no means wasted, feared that the Party had trained a group of men who would one day help to destroy it. The literary intellectuals might be slow, lazy, self-important, unpractical, fussy or funny, but they had reached their convictions, "not without years in the wilderness and days of blindness." Above all they were articulate...
Hitler, as we have seen, has lost the second round of the war. But we think that he certainly is going to renew the attack on Britain with all his might this winter and spring. Everything else is for him a side show. But if he can destroy Britain, he and his friends will have won the basis of world domination. But this time he is going to concentrate on the sea. He has failed to overwhelm us in the air and we are sure that he will continue to fail, while with your help our power to hit back...
...terror, the Romantics, says Author White, were its heirs. They transferred the defeated revolution to literature, agitated for it in prose and verse, plotted for it in garrets and palazzi. Since 1800, romanticism in literature has been politics continued in another form. The task of the romantics was to destroy conservative morale by indicting or ridiculing the instincts and institutions by which average people live-family, marriage, religion, education, the State. Like a band of intellectual sappers, they softened up Europe's mind in advance of every big social change...
...usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself. ... He has endeavored, in every way that he could, to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life...