Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...budget is itself meaningless. The President holds that a 1960 budget balance would be a highly valuable symbol of fiscal soundness, one that could shape the whole U.S. economy. If Congress shifts the IMF appropriation to 1960, it will wreck any hope of a 1960 budget balance-and will destroy the symbol...
...overall effect of the concert, despite its shortcomings, was that of a deeply moving, supremely beautiful work of art, which the baroque St. Matthew Passion certainly is. Not even Mr. Munch, with his unduly Romantic approach to the score could destroy that...
Next day Defense Secretary McElroy, at his own news conference, laid down a few of the specifics of what he and the President had in mind. The Communists, said McElroy, could hardly mount an attack of the size needed to destroy the U.S. without preparations that would be detectable by the U.S. Such a huge build up would require 1) heavy communications traffic, such as for readying hundreds of missile countdowns, 2) heavy forces movements which might not go undetected. Duration of such a buildup might be four or five days. And if such a buildup were reported...
...which it follows of avoiding intramural controversy is a healthy one; the Alumni Bulletin correctly sees itself as a pleasant journal which lets the alumni body keep in touch with each other and with the University. To get involved in factional fights within that body of alumni would merely destroy the magazine's purpose...
Only Harvard official to speak was Thomas D. Bolles, Director of Athletics, who said the project "would destroy the racing course that has been used by many hundreds of oarsmen...