Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...project Todd last summer had won the cooperation of Chinese Nationalists and Chinese Communists. But last week the Communists were demanding a five-month postponement of further work on the river. In Yenan, Communist Spokesman Chou En-lai gave the official Communist reason: "It would destroy the lives and property of several million people" living in the path of the river's projected diversion. The Reds charged that resettlement of these millions had been delayed by the Nationalists' failure to make good a promised $15 billion CN ($4.5 million U.S.) relief payment to local Communist authorities...
...killing of 10% of humanity . . . with atomic bombs might not destroy civilization. But the production of abnormalities in 10% of the population by gene mutations induced by radioactivity may very easily destroy it." Destruction need not be immediate; mutated genes are insidious skulkers. They may lie in wait for centuries in the germ plasm, spreading by intermarriage through the population. Then, when they get their chance, they kill the child in the womb, or burden it with physical or mental defects...
Sweet & Sour. Readers who followed Molotov, Gromyko & Co. through recent international conferences will recognize the exasperating Soviet sweet-sour game, though in 1943-45 the exasperation was probably not all one-sided. The U.S. had reservations, too (e.g., U.S. airmen were briefed to destroy certain devices and documents in the event of forced landings on Russian soil). But, as allies go, the U.S. was certainly openhanded-and in return, its chief representative was snubbed, given the runaround, even scolded. "I was in a high dudgeon much of the time," says General Deane...
...program of denazification, "Temper the Wind" seeks to uncover the selfish and villaninous forces at work in Germany. These groups play on the political ignorance and homesickness of the American troops to the obvious detriment of the peace. World-wide cartels operated by blind Americans and undercover Nazis destroy the work of the AMG and are only defeated by their ruthlessness that incites a murderous riot. Anti-nazi Germans are killed before they can re-educate their people, stiff-necked Nazis, recently shorn of their Charlie Chaplin mustaches, slither around the stage, eager to rehoist the banner of fascism...
Laugh, Clown, Laugh. "It is ... the particular function of comedy to destroy the more trifling dignities of this earth: quality varies with the shape and size of the dignities it destroys. Pantomime goes with a whack to the seat of the pants; slapstick goes with peel or pie to any section of the anatomy which presents itself; Shaw, a Mack Sennett of the Parlour, trips up the prejudices. The quality deepens till, in Swift, you tumble up the human race itself...