Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ironically enough, it was the Communists themselves who seemed about to destroy any chance they may have had for inclusion in the government. All week long Red agitprop specialists spattered Djakarta's buildings with red-paint slogans supporting Sukarno's proposal. Across the city's swill-strewn byways and broad, palm-lined boulevards diligent Communist cadres hung hortatory banners. The Red campaign was the most impressive show of organized political strength Indonesians had seen in years, and to many Indonesian politicians it was also the most frightening...
...atom, man has suddenly found in his hands the power to destroy or recreate his world as he sees fit. How, if at all, this knowledge makes itself felt in the lives of thoughtful people, and what changes, if any, it must work in the vast pattern of human interaction, are the problems Theodore Morrison treats in his second novel...
This was back-home, facts-of-life talk from a political expert to an audience of political experts-and it had its effect. Such was the threat that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had letters fired off to the Senate warning that the Russell substitute would "destroy the value" of the Eisenhower Doctrine and promising that the Administration would not "enter into any commitments which would seem, morally or legally, to obligate the Congress to appropriate funds in the future." Even so, the spending section of the Middle East resolution remained in trouble-until unexpected help came from...
...pressure of my conscience as a man and a Jew, the pressure of the justice for which my people were fighting . . . the crushing historic responsibility that rests on the representatives of this small nation in its hard and bitter struggle for survival against the many who seek to destroy...
...Arab villages demanding that they give up fugitive criminals or be bombed. Usually the trick worked, and the wanted man would be expelled from the threatened village, pursued through the desert, shot down or captured. On other occasions the population would flee the village, which the R.A.F. would then destroy. A fortnight ago in Britain's Aden Protectorate, which has been under desultory attack by the Imam of Yemen, the old technique was tried again...