Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greasepainted TV actor. Recently, however, sponsors have dropped the qualifying "disclaimer" or have found means of skirting the principle of the code; e.g., just before the show goes off the air, comes a vague rider: "Portions of tonight's commercials were dramatized," a device not likely to destroy the listener's faith in the pince-nezed pitchman with the stethoscope...
...bids from any club, but would join the university's facility and bring "60 or 70 of the good men in the class" along with him. "Everyone's afraid that the facility will become a dumping ground," said he. "Someone has to make the move to destroy the stigma that will result if only 100 Percenters join the facility...
...being organized by an excited jackdaw. It is called a novel, presumably to allow the author to use any colorful incident he chose without the hampering need for accuracy. The fact that Dumas survives Author Endore's treatment is decisive proof that even a bad biography cannot destroy a really great...
...spur from Horns through Lebanon, had begun building it to the Syrian port of Baniyas instead. The company also fired 120 Lebanese it had hoped to use on the new spur, brought anguished protests from Lebanese businessmen. Cried Right Wing Deputy Nicolas Salem: "It's easy to destroy but not everybody can build . . . Investors are losing faith in Lebanon...
...still argue over the guilt or innocence of the Templars,*but most agree that they had to be swept away before Philip's kingdom could become a nation of Frenchmen instead of warring congeries of Burgundians, Gascons, Provengals, Normans. To unite France, Philip set out not only to destroy the Templars but to defeat the great barons, carry blood and sword to the rebellious Flemings, even capture the Papacy and remove it from Rome to Avignon...