Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Agriculture & Fisheries Thomas Williams was peppered with questions. Said he: "There was and is no intention of reducing the national rook population by heavy and indiscriminate slaughter all over the country." But rook-loving M.P.s were not mollified. Said one: "Is the Minister aware that it is inhumane to destroy birds while they are nesting?" Answered the Minister: "I shall need to make further inquiries...
...purpose of this terror is simply to corrupt Berlin's brain and conscience, to destroy the value Berliners put on their lives, their homes, and their city. Terror has allies. Lesser and more ordinary suffering has corroded untold values. In countless brains and consciences, all political debate is held worthless. A typical newspaper cartoon this past winter showed a child pointing to a pile of cut timber: "Is that wood for our fireplaces, Daddy?" "No, son, it is for conference tables...
...persecutions perpetrated in Christianity's name, Bennett admits, have been no better than the Communist variety. But here again, "Christians should know that they and their opponents or enemies belong together before God, and they should realize that, tragic as the situation is in which they seek to destroy their enemies, they never can rid themselves of concern for enemies as children...
America's Town Meeting (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). "How Should Democracy Deal with Groups Which Aim to Destroy Democracy?" Facing the issue: Senator Robert A. Taft, Thurman Arnold and others...
Hyacinth, who has secretly sworn to carry out the assassination of the duke, begins to have his doubts about the wisdom of destroying the social order. It is this change of mind that becomes the central development of the novel. Ironically, it is the princess who has given him a taste for the culture that revolution would destroy. In the end, he sees the princess give herself to his best anarchist friend. Overwhelmed by the ironies that smother him, Hyacinth commits suicide with the bullet that was meant for the duke...