Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Destroying the Party. In the past three years Stalin's successors have released, for their own purposes, a flood of new material about the nature of the Stalinist regime. From this material, a completely new interpretation of the development of the Soviet Union has been reached by Western scholars and "Sovietologists." It is now known that between 1934 and 1939 Stalin attempted to destroy the authority and power of the Soviet Communist Party by liquidating thousands of its leaders and tens of thousands of its minor functionaries. For 13 years there was no full meeting of the Central Committee...
Knock's bored aloofness instead of swaggering magnetism mars the second act and destroys the delicate balance between comedy and satire. In place of a series of quick, witty repartees between Knock and his clients, we have a succession of labored interviews which destroy the comic and bury the satiric...
...natural desire to gain revenge for the horrendous losses the Eyyptians have sustained, both in the 1948 war and in the more recent Sinai campaign. Second, Nasser, like the other Arab rulers, maintain their personal positions only by dictatorial methods. They earnestly desire, said Allon, to destroy Israel, "this little show window of parliamentary democracy...
...robbed those wealthy squatters, Their flocks he did destroy, The terror of Australia Was the Wild Colonial...
...These were good men," says Author Linna of both the dead and the living. Fate had laid the whip of defeat across their backs, but it also released them from responsibility for the future, and they were content to sit back and watch the victors destroy their victory. Says one exhausted survivor when the fighting is over and the politicians take command: "Speeches aren't going to help anything. When your powder's all gone, it's better to keep your mouth shut than to go spouting about the rights of small nations. A dog raises...