Word: destroyed
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Cauthorne was an advocate of simplified spelling. When told that phonetic spelling would destroy philology, he countered by quoting Francis James Child, then Boylston Professor of Rhetorie and Orstory. "They can change spelling all they please but it will not threw a Biologist off the trail so long as they leave one letter of the word...
...destroy those twelve aircraft in five minutes," Nasser scoffed in his speech last week. For his part, Nasser is launching what he calls his "long-breath strategy." He is paring his army from 70,000 men to 40,000, withdrawing from exposed positions in eastern and northern Yemen, and tightening his hold on the parts of Yemen that really count: the Red Sea coastline; a northern boundary that takes in the well-fortified town of Hajja and the capital, Sana; and the border with the South Arabian Federation, which becomes independent in 1968 and offers a tempting target for further...
...have a solution to the Viet Nam war. Since it is difficult to define friend and foe in that unhappy country, we could have our nuclear scientists computerize the size of a nuclear warhead necessary to destroy Viet Nam. Then we could send in bulldozers and florists to make a garden where Viet Nam once stood. We could do this in other trouble spots to teach the population that when we say "peace," we mean "peace." Soon we would have a world of beautiful gardens-but no people to tend them. But we can't have everything...
...catch him for four years and never hear precisely the same lecture twice. Waiting for the lights to dim for his slides, Scully paces head down like a halfback about to take the field. Then he swings his 10-ft. pointer, whomps the screen as if to destroy a bad building, jabs it like a fencer to stress a point ?and buildings take on life. "What does a building want to be?" he will ask. "How does that building want to say hello...
...mutants. "It is perhaps indicative," Leary said, "that LSD was invented in the same decade as the atomic bomb. Maybe the deepest and most basic chords of all human life, the DNA codes deep within each cell of all living organisms, saw that man now had the capacity to destroy all life, and decided that it was time to mutate...