Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zack: "I wouldn't trust you with my home address-you and your goons would destroy my neighborhood...
...Recently, the British tried to destroy an anti-aircraft bunker in Berlin's Tiergarten by setting off a 50,000-lb. charge of TNT (TIME, Sept. 8). The bunker did not budge...
...Glory. Robert Lincoln himself was embittered by Herndon's now-it-can-be-told approach, and reportedly bought the whole shipment of the Herndon book in England to destroy it. Always broke, William Herndon wrote to Collaborator Weik of their book: "I hope it will be success in the money line, particular! The money line is my line & not the glory line. I need the dollars. Glory may go to thunder if I get the dimes & this you ought to know...
...atom bombs do not do the job first, the human race may destroy itself just as effectively in a slower, subtler way. Last week, in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Nobel-Biologist Hermann J. Muller of Indiana University warned that even the peaceful use of atomic energy may kill off the human species by loading its germ plasm with too many "mutated" genes...
...Thus we may say that man, in stark opposition to the righteous will of God, may destroy his civilization and life. This may be exactly the opposite of God's intention-if anthropomorphic language is at all adequate here. But in that event, God's sovereignty will not be abrogated. For in those very events, man can turn to Him in repentance and faith, and forgiveness and salvation will be real. Faith will see God coming in judgment, and will discern within His wrath His love...