Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another war will wipe everybody off the face of the earth," mused Nobel Physicist Arthur H. Compton, with scientific caution. "That's pretty extreme. And it won't destroy civilization -there'll be some pieces left. But it will be an enormous setback. We'll have to start all over, from 'way back...
...peace and freedom while she is still too weak to dare risk war with us." Like Governor Dewey, she finds it hard to understand a State Department that says so-far-and-no-further to Communism in Europe, while by neutrality in China it is helping Communism to destroy our Pacific ally. Chiang Kai-shek's government is admittedly ugly and confused in action, she says, but if the U.S. waits for a democratic China before giving aid, the Communists will have won all. Once China is free from civil war and helped economically by the U.S., Chiang will...
...have not slept for nights. My fear is that I shall fire the first shot. As a priest I cannot do it. It would destroy the work of a lifetime, and it would be bad for France. But they will not get me alive...
...pointed it out to him-that the U.S. had shipped $113 million worth of exports to unfriendly Russia in the first nine months of 1947. Cried he: "A constant and deliberate violation of the law. . . . We are providing with our own funds the things with which Russia can destroy...
...future must see the party destroy the restrictions and bureaucracy brought in by the Democrats and keep the United States as the "greatest industrial nation on earth," Coolidge demanded...