Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...psychiatrists, officials of labor and veterans' organizations. To set the precedents for the new code, the committee researched back to primitive man, who automatically slaughtered all of his prisoners, and it quoted from I Samuel: "Thus saith the Lord of Hosts . . . Go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have and spare them not." The committee reported the exhortations of Germanicus as his legions poured into the Rhineland: "Slay, and slay on! Do not take prisoners...
...long for their annihilation: if my criticisms were flaming thunderbolts, no prudent Life or Fire Insurance Company would entertain a proposal from any singer within my range ..." Shaw on Music is afire with annihilating invective. He comments, for instance, on the "surprising power of the average Italian chorister to destroy all stage illusion the moment he shambles on the scene with his blue jaws, his reach-me-down costume ... his embarrassed eye on the prompter, and his general air of being in an opera chorus because he is fit for nothing better." Unnerving frankness is the keynote of most...
...told a gathering that he was, at the moment of addressing them, also making a divinely simultaneous appearance in a bus traveling from Cuttack to Calcutta. On the basis of this success he claimed to be a personal incarnation of the Hindu god Brahma, and frequently threatened to destroy the universe. His worshipful believers included many rich people from Cuttack and a maharaja or two. Even the police, before breaking into the Kaliaboda math, respectfully obeyed the mad monk's injunction against bringing leather into a holy place: they removed their shoes, belts, holsters, and carried their pistols...
...Dixiecrat candidate for Vice President in 1948. Pointing to his longtime record in behalf of white supremacy, Wright adopted an I-told-you-so tone. Said he: "I started eight years ago trying to warn the people of the South what was taking place ... I warned you . . . They will destroy the sovereign states, and no longer will we live under a confederation of sovereign states. Then we will live as vassals to some federal system, and the Supreme Court will tell you how to run your private lives...
...Petitpierre welcomed him to the glistening city of the Parley at the Summit (see FOREIGN NEWS), Ike recalled an earlier and different mission to Europe. "Some eleven years ago," he said, "I came to Europe with an army, a navy, an air force, with a single purpose: to destroy Naziism . . . This time I come armed with something far more powerful: the good will of America -the great hopes of America-the aspirations of America for peace...