Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theme, as ever, was the cry that the Ottawa government threatens Quebec's autonomy, endangers its language and religion. Ottawa's contingent of campaigning Cabinet ministers may have served to strengthen his argument; Defender Duplessis pointed to them as further evidence of Ottawa's plan to destroy Quebec's traditions...
...best adventure stories of the Civil War. In the spring of 1862, a Union spy named James J. Andrews and a score of volunteer infantrymen from Ohio penetrated nearly 200 miles behind the Confederate lines in Tennessee, seized a railway train outside Marietta, Ga. and raced north intending to destroy track and railway bridges as they fled. Their object: to prevent Southern reinforcements from being sent from Atlanta while Union General Mitchel made a surprise attack on Chattanooga...
Catacombs an Escape. "Communism has come to the conclusion that it will never succeed in destroying religion with brutal force; open persecution will never suppress the faith but only destroy its public and exterior manifestations. The Communists don't want this. They don't want a church in the catacombs which would escape the Communist Party's and government's control. They want a church that may be active, with administration of the sacraments and even large church attendances, but controlled by them through the choice of the priests in charge. The most tragic aspect...
...Communism is the greatest, most dangerous power that the church has ever faced. Mohammedanism wanted to destroy the church materially but left her her soul. Communism would pervert the soul of the church. This is because the church is the greatest obstacle in the path of materialism. There are more Communists who see in Christianity their chief enemy than Christians who see their enemy in Communism...
...Boozer." In this dreadful city is set a dreadful boarding house, whose inmates, one by one, destroy Spinster Judith as barnyard fowls peck to death a sickly hen. Her latest and last landlady is Mrs. Henry Rice, with a "bad, blackhearted, slimy voice." The landlady's son, Bernie, is an atrocious intellectual engaged in writing a great poem. His mother washes his hair for him, while he dreams of himself as Messire Bernardus Riccio, a Machiavellian figure. The landlady's brother, James Patrick Madden, is back from New York and thought to be rich; although a vulgar sort...