Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small percentage of officers had been affected, then German fighting power was far more seriously weakened than if all those officers had been lost in a single day of combat in the field. Germany's is a close-textured Army; a few threads plucked from it could destroy the fabric, especially when it is stretched taut over three fronts...
...enough to ruin their ability to create immunity when injected into a living body. To accomplish this, a special lamp had to be developed (details are being kept secret by the Office of Scientific Research and Development). Old-type ultraviolet lamps take so long to kill germs that they destroy immunizing power as well...
...flags of Denmark, Britain, the U.S. and Russia. Exultant Danes mingled scraps of The Star-Spangled Banner and God Save the King with their own sonorous anthem. The second night 700 Danes were killed or wounded. Then the frantic Germans declared that they would call in bombers to destroy the city. But the demonstrators kept up their ominous preview of what the Germans might expect as the tide rose in Europe...
...armed guard around the ship while Coury and the crew opened No. 3 engine to check on repair possibilities. Coury's face was dark and unhappy when he reported to Root, "Captain, there is not much we can do with the engine. We'll have to destroy the plane and get out as best...
...Okay. Doolen and Robinson, you come with me into the ship. We'll destroy the equipment and papers, then burn...