Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taxes. "We must expect taxation after the war to be heavier than it was before the war, but we do not intend to ... destroy initiative and enterprise...
While the French, with heartbreaking effort, improvised a pontoon bridge over the River Tagus, Dodd crawled the better part of 50 miles, among enemies, to destroy it. When, at last, Dodd tried to tell his story, "it was hard for a later generation to realize that [honor and duty] had meant anything...
Kharkov Is a Hinge. The Germans did not encircle and destroy the Red Armies which had been moving toward the Dnieper. On the Russian side, what had been vanguard became rearguard and fought as fiercely going backward as it had going forward. What were to have been the arms of a German pincer west of the Donets embraced emptiness, converged, and drove frontally on Kharkov...
That year was enough to change any man, and to destroy a lesser one. Uncertain and divided authority in Australia, the slow flow of men and weapons to his command, his acute sense of hostility in Washington made his first months a period of agonized frustration. His defense of Bataan had enshrined MacArthur as a hero to the U.S. people, but not to the U.S. High Command...
Ashore, the Commandos began the long, exhausting climb to the mountain top, beyond which lay the bridge they must destroy. Soon their cheeks were "streaked to the neck with charcoaled sweat, and the neck raw from chafing collar . . . the nostrils sore from running mucus. . . . There was pain in . . . the stooped shoulders straining downwards away from the pack . . . in the bent spine, in the small of the back. . . . Pain in the strung thighs, red pain in the chafed buttocks . . . in the gooseflesh skin of the thigh where a holster, or a knife in ihe trouser pocket, rubbed with the polish...