Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government. Says he: "Money is at the heart and center of a flexible society. Too few of us realize how deeply the roots of the Federal Reserve are embedded in the soil of democracy, in the understanding that power over money, if abused, can be a tyranny which can destroy all liberty and freedom...
France is united from right to left-except for the Communists-in regarding the Suez crisis as an unexpected opportunity to destroy Nasser, the man they see behind all their North African troubles. This weighs far more deeply with them than the seizure of the French canal company...
...Portrait Painter Pietro Annigoni, who touched off the ruckus, most modern restorers are no more civilized than scalp-lifting red Indians. "The war did not destroy a greater number of works of art [than they]," said he. "I do not doubt the meticulous care employed by these renovators, nor their chemical skill, but I am terrified by the contemplation of these qualities in such hands as theirs...
...this was part of the Pharaoh's larger plan to destroy the nation's Pantheon of man-beast gods and substitute the world's first monotheistic faith: sun worship. A famed bas-relief shows Akhenaten, Nefertete and a daughter sacrificing to the sun god (see cut). Unfortunately, soon after Akhenaten's death around 1350 B.C., the priest-ridden, sybaritic Tutankhamen (the famed "King Tut" of the 1920s) rang down the curtain on his predecessor's splendid experiment...
...archaeologists dismissed it as being "only about three centuries old-probably the work of some local mountain hermit." But the leaders of Shinto, the indigenous Japanese religion with roots closely bound to the legend, seemed unconcerned about what the scientists would find. "Whatever historical facts the scientists find cannot destroy the spiritual truths of our religion." said one. "any more than scientific analysis of miracles destroys the truths of Christianity...