Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy, I have seen broken and ruined furniture in some of the finest hotels in Europe, all left behind by G.Ls. As a lot they are a group of vulgar-mouthed, bragging, drunken apes who roam the streets of foreign countries seeking someone to insult or something to destroy...
Flaming Youth. In Pingtung, Formosa, arrested for repeatedly trying to burn down his dormitory, 20-year-old Student Chen Wei-juo told police: "I wanted to destroy it because I can't have late dates with girls as long as I live there." Moral Victory. In Corning, Calif., Warren B. Woodson complained he was unjustly fined $11 for passing over a double line, retaliated by giving the police department 60 days to move their headquarters from the building that he owns...
Warning Fist. Even New York's Republican William E. Miller, who had sponsored the bill, tried to recommit it; he feared that Hitler had come to power by "decrees just like this legislation. In its present form it will destroy more civil liberties and civil rights than it protects." The Southerners greeted this with a standing ovation. Then Minority Leader Joe Martin, trembling, rushed down to the Speaker's well and shook a warning fist at his colleagues. "If you follow the Southern democracy in defeat of this bill," he intoned grimly, "you will regret it every...
Suddenly Li Po slammed his tiny hand onto the table, and bowls and chopsticks jumped into the air. Proudly he exhibited a black blotch on his palm. "Ha," he cried, grinning for the first time, "I have exterminated another fly." Embarrassed, his mother mentioned the Reds' campaign to destroy the four pests. Li Po broke in: "I have already trapped and killed 20 rats and sparrows and exterminated 300 mosquitoes and flies." Hsiao Ming ordered her son to go off and wash his hands. Li Po had expected praise. Wounded, he replied, "Stop ordering me about like an American...
...establishment on one of the islands. After years of privation the holy man has shed the "creed of any religion but he believed as the Hindus do that God is in all things, animate and inanimate, that all things are in God." Because he knows the religious project will destroy the living creatures on the islands, he declares war on the interlopers. But in the course of three assaults, in which he enlists the help of an army of snakes and plunders a temple of its god, the sadhu only succeeds in strengthening his enemies and losing his otherworldliness...