Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clause and Rohr countered that education in many states is not as bad as statistics tend to show. The states, they claimed, aren't making enough of an effort to settle their own schooling problems. Federal aid might well destroy the initiative of local education units, the Crimson debaters added...
Accessory. In Cooke County, Tenn., revenue agents, hiding in the brush nearby until a moonshiner returned to his still, watched a bear sample the product, then in a drunken rage destroy both still and evidence...
...shall stand by our arms. But if this cold war becomes a war of boredom where the danger is shrewdly concealed, then our resolution may be tested by our willingness to maintain arms. If we fall victim to boredom and risk curtailment of our armed strength, we shall destroy the world's only sturdy barricade against the danger of aggression...
With mock horror, Shaw recalls the dreadful results of Darwinism. Having once rejected the fundamentalist notion that "the universe is the work of a grotesque tribal idol described in the book of Numbers as God, who resolves to destroy the human race, but is placated by the smell of roast meat," the Darwinians decided that "the 39 articles were reduced to absurdity . . . Hell was abolished. Jehovah was exposed as an impostor whose real name was Jarvey . . . Talk of emptying the baby out with the bath! . . . Herod's massacre of the innocents was a joke in comparison...
...jokes: "Let him talk about sending me flowers. I'll send them over to him first. He plans to attack Honduras and Nicaragua. He has just made a pact with Figueres of Costa Rica, Prío Socarrás of Cuba, and the Caribbean Communist tramps to destroy the peace of Central America. He is responsible for Central America's coming...