Word: destroyed
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...field a united Olympic team, thereby avoiding onerous comparisons. His machinations in the current crisis are crucial to the Games' future. As a Sports Illustrated writer wrote last week, "The South African affair could be an even greater triumph (than the uniting of Germany athletically). Or it could destroy the Olympics, since it involves the most malignant of man's emotions: his hatred for those that are different...
PANTAGLEIZE. History is a farce, says Michel de Ghelderode in his play about one lovely day when a man looking for his destiny collides with a revolution, and owing to circumstances beyond their comprehension or control, they destroy each other...
...riots. Strict rules should be written covering the use of riot-control weapons, and alternative, nonlethal equipment should be developed. The commission condemned police departments that are preparing for a long, hot summer simply by buying such destructive weapons as tanks and machine guns. "Weapons which are designed to destroy, not to control," it said, "have no place in densely populated urban communities...
...Miroir de Votre Faust was hurt by the poor technical quality of the tapes. Distortion was evident in places and the entire tape collection seemed hurriedly prepared. M. Peusseur later substantiated this suspicion and stated that he was going to "destroy the tape immediately." For those who were not able to come, tant...
...concede that he really was determined to annihilate Europe's Jews. Such an indictment by hindsight seems unduly harsh, particularly since so many Americans-and even so many European Jews-were either ignorant of Hitler's aim or could not believe that anybody would seek to destroy a whole people. But Morse offers considerable documentation for his charge that some key U.S. officials knew for years about the Nazis' infamous "final solution...