Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allies chosen to strike now in Italy? To capture Rome? To wipe out the Cassino disgrace? It was much more than that. Said General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander in his order of the day: "We are going to destroy the German armies in Italy." There were undoubtedly other factors which General Alexander did not mention...
...judgments. . . ." Cardinal of Spain is the first full-length study in English of the brilliant, plebeian, little-known prelate who "changed the whole history of the Mediterranean" and made one of Europe's most sensational poverty-to-power careers. "Had Alberoni been given two worlds like ours to destroy," grumbled Frederick the Great, an authori ty, "he would have asked for a third." Giulio Alberoni was born (1664) in the Grand Duchy of Parma - until then, chiefly famed as the home of Parmesan cheese...
...noticed that the mold had cleared a wide, bacteria-free area between itself and the staphylococci-perhaps had killed them. He did not destroy the moldy culture...
...attack on the Assam-Bengal railway - chief supply line for China as well as the India and Burma battlefronts. The Allied countermove is first to locate and pin down the Japs, prevent them from gaining full use of roads, squeeze their supplies. Secondly, the British would attack and destroy the enemy - an operation which would take several weeks...
...pledged his party to cooperation with all other parties, no matter how Rightist, so long as they had not sold out to Germany. Said he, reversing the old Communist tenet that stormy weather is good weather: "We do not want civil war. We fear that civil war might completely destroy France. We could not build Communism on a ruin...