Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many new buildings are rising across the nation that the volume of construction during the present decade will exceed everything built in America since the Revolutionary War. At the same time, more and more Americans are concerned that progress should not destroy America's heritage. From New Hampshire to Hawaii, New Orleans to Kodiak, Alaska, New York City to Ord, Neb., history hawks are fluttering against the wrecker's ball. Often their efforts are too little-but less and less are they too late...
...while losing only six dead of their own and none at all to capture. The Navy officially admits only that the Seal teams are operating inside South Viet Nam. Nonetheless, there is reason to believe that Ho Chi Minh does not regard the adventures of Buz Sawyer-who helped destroy a SAM missile site in the North-as either fanciful or funny...
Over and over, this theme is pressed home. What we Americans rely on our machines to do, the Vietnamese do with their hands. You don't have to take Greene's word for it. He shows you. A flood control dam, for instance. One bomb would destroy it. But then we see pleasants carrying buckets of water from a river to irrigation ditches, the way they have always done it. How many bombs will it take to destroy this method, the commentator asks. A railroad bridge is destroyed, and we see women fire-brigade-line-style lifting rocks to prop...
...escalatory nature." But Reischauer and friends are quick to reassure us that "such steps need not--indeed, should not--be massive." In fact, the only specific recommendation in the statement is that "an increasing emphasis must be placed upon 'seize and hold,' rather than 'search and destroy' operations." One wonders whether Professor Reischauer really believes that such "de-escalation" would constitute the kind of "serious and sustained effort...to reach a negotiated settlement" that the Ad Hoc Committee's petition demands. Indeed, in context it appears that the scholars are recommending this small gesture not in the hope of thereby...
...wary eye on the charts, inserting flaccid pop songs whenever the action flags. In such a child-centered zoo story, the animals, of course, should be the true stars of the picture. But Director Richard Fleischer has inserted a number of special-effect monstrosities whose obvious falsity helps to destroy the mood created by the real zoo denizens. The Sea Snail is laughably mechanical, and the luna moth, which propels Harrison home to Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, looks like a five-and-ten windup toy left over from someone's Christmas stocking...