Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would provide an excellent target for antiaircraft guided missiles, which have been trying their electronic tricks on slow-flying drones or even floating parachutes. Such tests are no tests, says Ryan. A missile should not be trusted for defense against enemy bombers unless it can hunt down and destroy an airplane at least as fast as the Firebee. No U.S. missile, says Ryan, has proved this...
Nobody is noble in these stories. These are the "maimed souls" and the ferociously maternal types whose footless magnanimity seems unfailingly to destroy those around them. In the title story, the fatal female is the grandmother who chatters, "People are certainly not nice like they used to be," and nags her son's vacationing family into driving off on a side road. Instead of finding the six-columned mansion she insists she remembers, they run into three escaped convicts who rob and shoot the lot, the babbling old feather-wit last of all. Good Country People looses Mrs.Hopewell...
...want to cooperate with the University in their efforts to house younger members of the faculty," Mrs. King Upton said last night, "but we feel that building an apartment house in Shady Hill would destroy one of the last pleasant neighborhood near the University...
...made the mistake of proposing a rent-increase bill that satisfied no one. Everybody agreed that something had to be done about housing (one family in six still has to share with another), but Dutch housing is bedeviled by a shortage of building workers, by wage controls that destroy incentive, by cartels that keep material costs high, and by inequitable rent controls (rents have been allowed to go up 40% on prewar houses, while the cost of living has gone up 200% since 1939). Premier Drees' makeshift bill did little to overcome all this. In The Netherlands such difficulties...
...talk of secession. But the opposition that counted most arose where it was least expected: among the Boers themselves. Thirteen Nationalist professors and senior lecturers at the Afrikaans University of Pretoria condemned the Senate-packing bill on the grounds that it would violate the principles of the constitution, destroy the rights of minorities, change the political structure of South Africa without popular consent, possibly destroy the Union...