Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Protect Which Jobs? About 4,500,000 workers-one in 14-depend on foreign trade for a living. Since foreigners must sell to the U.S. in order to buy from the U.S., it follows, said Ike, that "the defeat of the trade agreements program would destroy far more jobs . . . than it could possibly ever preserve." But the President was not willing to rest his argument on self-interest. "It may be trite to say that trade is a two-way street, but is it trite to say that cooperative security is a two-way street? By no means. Allies...
...have no ties with either the Javanese or the Dutch, yet are incapable of developing and ruling a nation in the modern world. It is scarcely any more helpful in Cyprus, where straightforward recourse to a plebiscite might well bring Greece and Turkey into an armed conflict that would destroy NATO's Eastern wing...
...outlook: the opposition may try to call out the street mobs in an attempt to destroy not only the Chamoun regime but Lebanon's pro-Western policy...
...word coming more and more into Pentagon usage is "overkill"-a blunt but descriptive term implying a power to destroy a military target not once but many times more than necessary. On Defense Secretary Neil McElroy's desk last week lay the paper plans that will soon add up to a problem of overkill: each of the services is ready to offer one or more complete weapons systems, each one promising to achieve nuclear annihilation of Russian targets. McElroy's problem: How much is enough-or to put it another way, how many times...
Destruct: v.t., barbarism of destroy; also adj., as used in "destruct button...