Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fifth-column activities have little in common with old-fashioned espionage or sabotage such as the Germans used in World War I to destroy $150,000,000 of U. S. property. Adolf Hitler has perfected "the science of treason'' - which now includes not only the theft or purchase of military and naval secrets, the damaging or destruction of defense equipment, but the demoralizing of public opinion, the conscious exploitation of class and racial differences, the systematic irritation of disputes, the vigorous organization of hatred and suspicion...
...talk on international affairs with such undiplomatic, brutal bluntness. Mr. Bullitt minced no monosyllables. What he saw was the need for desperate haste. He quoted Hitler's handwriting on the democracies' wall: Each country will imagine that it alone will escape. I shall not even need to destroy them one by one. Selfishness and lack of foresight will prevent each one fighting until it is too late...
...grew a lot of Britain's food. And into the east coast ports was brought a large bulk of the enormous fish haul with which Britain pieced out her imported food supply. But it was of the industrial Midlands that Adolf Hitler thought when he swore he would destroy Great Britain. They not only symbolized, they constituted, the Britain which dominated world trade. They built and supported the British Fleet, protected the empire. London is where warlike Winston Churchill lives and leads the British people. But Birmingham is where tradesman-like Neville Chamberlain was born and bred to honor...
...light of great minds too. But it was a light without much warmth. Heroes of New England: Indian Summer are Henry & William James, Henry Adams, Howells, Francis Parkman. "They knew they were doomed to fight their fights alone, in a world that was more than likely to divide and destroy them. Some, like Henry Adams, were all but born discouraged. Others, like Henry James, were to spend ten years trying to solve the question where to live. . . . William James and Howells, who had come from the West, retained the buoyant mood of the early republic; but most of the others...
...organ El Popular made a fabulous charge. Conservative Candidate Almazan, he told them, is just a tool of exiled Leon Trotsky. Together, he confided to the educators, the two aimed "to wreck Mexico's liberal education system. . . . Trotsky would like to go into the U. S. to destroy your institutions, also . . . exert his influence over all South America. You can count on that...