Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...equally devout men who, 100 years before, had kneeled at Mass on their beachhead near the place they came to call Vera Cruz. The notion persists that the Spanish conquest of the New World was a cruel and disgraceful business. Two new books may do something to destroy what Salvador de Madariaga has called "an article of faith" in the Anglo-Saxon world-"that Spain means cruelty and oppression...
...dollars were responsible for Okinawa's new schools and hospitals, even for the bright new concrete buildings and paved streets of Naha itself. Two days after election, 27 of Naha's 30 city councilors announced that they would "refuse to cooperate with a Communist mayor pledged to destroy all the progress Naha has made with the aid and good will of the U.S." Simultaneously, all 22 of the city department heads resigned "in protest against serving under ex-Convict Senaga." Moriyasu Tomihara, president of the Bank of the Ryukyus (in which the U.S. holds 51% of the stock...
...Queen's now renounced ties with Faith Healer Greet Hofmans (TIME, June 25 et seq.). Said Juliana: "Why . . . do some people attack someone by devious means with false claims? Why . . . do they try to drive a wedge between a man and a woman in vain attempts to destroy a deeply rooted unity? . . . Do not I, too, have the right to try to be myself...
...posted word in factories that "if this keeps up, the workers will turn against the government for good, and the end will be a general strike, bloodshed and a new national tragedy." Next day the government released 69 of 200 arrested men, but Kadar told a delegation he would destroy all council leaders who opposed him as "counter-revolutionaries...
Chafee said he did not advocate laws that would destroy "out long-cherished ideal of responsible states operating within a national framework," and that "chief reliance must be placed upon communities where violations of human rights are in danger of taking place...