Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the failure of the seaside conference, the extremists began a new wave of terror, attacking track intersections until the country was in the grip of an internal blockade. Haganah countered with an "educational campaign" against Irgun and the Sternists, and actually raided arsenals belonging to the underground to destroy hidden explosives...
...flying revenue, had nearly ground-looped. Growled Millionaire Howard Hughes, T.W.A.'s majority stockholder: "It will take a year to recover, and longer before T.W.A. can employ as many people again. . . . T.W.A. had lost $8,000,000 during 1946 before the strike. . . . You cannot destroy the company you work for and profit...
What would UNESCO do and how would it do it? The boldest U.S. proposal was a worldwide United Nations radio network (cost: $250,000,000). By broadcasting loudly across national boundaries, it might help destroy state monopolies of the news...
...Princeton came three British regiments of foot, gleaming in scarlet and gold. These were no mercenaries, like the Hessians beaten at Trenton; these were seasoned and loyal troops. From a striking force of perhaps 2,500 men, Washington detached a skeleton brigade led by General Hugh Mercer to destroy the bridge over Stony Brook. But it was too late. The British regulars shattered and scattered the raw American irregulars, gave Mercer a fatal wound. His panicked men infected Washington's main body...
...Hermann Goring kill himself? How did he manage, in the midst of defeat and humiliation, to become a hero and thus virtually to destroy the positive psychological effect of the Nürnberg trial? From Nürnberg, TIME Correspondent John Stanton cabled...