Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heard with respectful attention. One day last month Dick Russell put on a brand-new, dark blue (his best color) suit, took the Senate floor to denounce the civil rights bill as nothing but another Reconstruction-style force bill, "cunningly contrived," based on bayonet rule, and designed to "destroy the separate system for the races on which the social order of the Southern states is built...
...Douglas Aircraft Co. The Genie's nuclear punch, said an Air Force spokesman, is "well below nominal"-nominal meaning, in the strange new vocabulary of the Atomic Age, equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT. But even a "well below'nominal" air-to-air nuclear rocket could destroy a whole flight of enemy bombers with the smash of its shock wave...
...killed the chief's mother instead. An elderly couple approaching on the street tried to stop him as he left the house, so Serafino killed them both. Of the five people Serafino killed that day, only one was a member of the Mafia. "I wanted to destroy all my enemies," he told the police, "but fate turned against...
Hildy's mother, now Mrs. Gerald R. Doherty with another child of her own, issued her own statement. "Some day [Hildy] will learn the facts about her mother's desire to protect her with the privacy that others are willing to destroy. Meanwhile ... I entrust her to the loving protection of God. The rest is in the hands of my attorneys...
...Germany and the largest chemical corporation in the world. This organization planned and schemed as a tool of the Nazi regime. The Allied Control Council has agreed that the economic power of cartels, syndicates, trusts and combines will be eliminated. We are committed and determined to seek out and destroy the sources of Germany's once powerful aggressive industrial might...