Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missiles (on the theory that they could be launched 100 miles behind the lines and travel 100 miles beyond). Gone, therefore, was the dream of longer-range Army-built missiles that could (as the Army Information Digest recently said) attack "distant troop concentrations, marshaling areas and communication centers" and destroy "enemy missile sites, atomic stockpiles and airfields." The Army was assigned responsibility for point, i.e., local defense and the franchise on such radar-directed, land-to-air missiles as Nike, with a range of not more than 100 miles...
...great powers surrounding Poland, seeking to exploit its estates and mines, have sought to crush Polish independence. From Russia's Ivan the Terrible, who invaded under the pretext of "gathering in of the Russian lands," to Sweden's Charles XII, whose declared Polish policy was "burn, destroy, rob and arrest," the invaders, as though fearing Poland's unquenchable spirit, have sought a "final solution...
...like the Russian people as much as he disliked their government, wrote a thoughtful, objective book (Russian Assignment) on his experiences. Russophile Stevens' prediction: "As surely as light follows darkness, the problems created in a decent people by the forced maintenance of power will somehow in the end destroy that power...
...still argue publicly that the Federal Government should stop regulating business, the majority agree privately that Government intervention is preferable to the economy of the jungle. Says Standard Oil Co. of California President Ted Petersen. "Busi ness should be allowed the right to property, but not the right to destroy. The businessman expects to have Government stop...
...generations, carefully chaperoned, have approached the standard more closely. Now there are 22 recognized Xolos, and more on the way. Rules have been set up to keep unrecognized Xolos, even though of ancient Aztec ancestry, from sullying the breed. Buyers of the real McCoy must sign an agreement to destroy all nonstandard pups. No owner may breed his Xolo without consulting Wright's committee...