Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Lyuh Woon Heung was seven, he watched his father, a yang ban (big landowner), beat a servant to death-a privilege that was legal in Korea until 1908. Said Lyuh later: "I determined then that when I became a man, I would destroy the yang ban class...
...great country thinks that world peace is threatened by the very existence of another social system, he ought to try to do something about it. Stalin tries. He inspires and directs Communist parties in all non-Communist countries to weaken their social systems and, if possible, to destroy them. In a nutshell, the evidence that the Communists intend to dominate the world boils down to this: 1) the Communists say they do; and 2) they act as if they mean...
Cried the party's national leader, stocky Solon Low: "Sufficient atom bombs to destroy a city the size of New York could be carried in the back of an ordinary automobile. It is conceivable that a group of technicians coming into Canada, with their cars immune from examination, could bring in dangerous things...
...little countries were not so sure. Said a Costa Rican: "We have an army of about 100 men. If we get lots of arms and equipment, we'll find ourselves with a real army, a burden on the treasury, with a militarist outlook that would destroy our democracy...
...commission, has no hope that the commission will come around to the radical idea of peeling off the mural. Said he: "The painting is so sacred to them that they will not dare touch it. And by trying to preserve the sacred thing, they may allow it to destroy itself...