Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hartley Act, reacted swiftly. John Lewis' coal miners struck back with a sweeping wildcat strike through the nation's coal fields. In his cocked fist Lewis held the threat of a full-scale strike. The rest of the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. mobilized in an effort to destroy the new law, by constitutional and more peaceful means, in the courts...
...Words. As he had before, Gromyko insisted again that the U.S. must destroy its stockpile of atomic bombs, and stop making them. He still wanted Russia and the rest of the Big Five to keep the ultimate right to veto U.N. punishment of nations caught violating world atomic rules. And, said Gromyko, there ought to be an International Control Commission which would "periodically carry out inspection of [atomic] facilities" in all countries...
With enough accuracy, atomic warheads would not be necessary for all purposes. A fair charge of ordinary explosive is enough to destroy, for instance, an aerial target, e.g., an enemy bomber. When launching methods are perfected, the missiles may take off in flocks, rising like falcons from the deck of a giant submarine which has crept toward an enemy coast...
...overseas relations. ... All the screaming, especially by the Americans, about the Soviet threat to the Empire is merely an excuse for the Americans to penetrate into the Empire. . . . The Americans have consistently opposed imperial preference, and it is not the Soviet Union but the U.S. which is threatening to destroy the British Empire's political coherence and economic welfare...
...other hand I was unsuccessful in obtaining the fortification of Guam. ... I was unable to persuade the navy and the administration that airplanes could destroy battleships...