Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even De Gaulle's detractors doubt that he will ultimately try to destroy the Market; as Jean Monnet pointed out long ago, whatever else he may do, De Gaulle hesitates to act in a way that will make him look foolish in history's long view. Last week De Gaulle hinted that he might be ready to reverse the veto by which he kept the British out of the Common Market nearly three years ago. Whatever De Gaulle is really up to, he is finding in the current French election campaign that his policy on European unity...
...Communists as a balancing force against the military, has been toying with the idea of a new nationalistic Communist Party, free of Peking's influence, that might be acceptable to the army. But many officers reject a "neo-P.K.I." Says Defense Minister Abdul Harris Nasution: "We should destroy the P.K.I., not because we are antiCommunist, but because the Communists have already betrayed the state with slaughter, torture, terrorism and treason...
Thanks to the free institutions it would destroy, the Communist Party of the U.S. has survived all efforts to legislate it and prosecute it to death. Last week the Supreme Court gave the party another energizing whiff of legal oxygen...
...into the uninhabited valleys of elephant grass and scrub-covered hills that for a long time have been their sanctuary. But this time a sanctuary it was not to be. The U.S. undertook what had rarely been attempted before in Viet Nam-a hunting expedition to seek out and destroy the retreating Reds rather than let them escape to fight again on their own terms. For a fortnight, the troopers of the 1st Air Cavalry got lots of blistered feet, fought some brief skirmishes and took some prisoners, but made no real contact with the enemy. The chance of real...
...devil is dancing with me! Madness, take me and destroy me!" So, in anguished scrawls, wrote Composer Gustav Mahler in the margins of his Tenth Symphony. Slowly dying of a streptococcus infection, he was torn between periods of black despair and intimations of immortality - all of which he attempted to pour into the five-movement Tenth, which was to be the last great testament of his life. But in 1911, before he could complete it, the disease killed...