Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conservation program were sharply sliced. The appropriation for insurance of farm-tenant mortgages was cut from $15 million to $1,000,000. Secretary of Agriculture Anderson wailed that the cut (32%) would deprive veterans of the money needed to start farming, deprive small farmers of subsistence loans, destroy the price support of perishable farm products...
...showdown was at hand. Almost continuously since liberation, French Communists had been part of France's Government, had played along with a democratic system they sought to destroy. Despite their avowed patriotism, the Communists' allegiance to Moscow had constantly conflicted with the interests of France. Last week, this anomalous situation was over-at least for the time being. The Communists were out of the Government. The crucial question now was: Could any French Government govern France without the Communists...
...five-to-one majority would place Radcliffe in the strongest position, numerically at least, to destroy this threatening encroachment of their relatively safe domain. But whether 30 'Cliffedwellers can do more than a smaller but well-organized 23-woman Wellesley force remains to be seen. In any case, it looks like a close, thing...
...mush-mouthed dialectics, distilled from northern academic mists, come so far in a land where struggle had always been so real and urgent that it needed no theoretical encouragement? How did Communist influence manage to reach so deeply into the heart of the civilization it sought to destroy? Part of the answer lay in the results of 20 years of Fascism; part of it lay in the extraordinary political genius of Palmiro Togliatti, the most successful Communist outside Russia, perhaps the greatest Communist since Lenin. And part of it lay in Western civilization's failure-in & out of Italy...
...strong union hesitate to tangle, and will employ attrition only when other measures fail to secure accord; while if one party is materially weaker, it must use every weapon at its command to gain a fair contract. Congress could make no sadder error than to become impatient and destroy the balance that labor and management seem to have hit upon after years of trial and error...