Word: destroyed
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...Echo in the U.S. Well aware that a successful turnout would destroy their claim to represent the South Vietnamese people, the Viet Cong condemned the election weeks in advance as a "hoax." It was so rigged, they said, that its results would be on U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's desk days before the actual balloting. By clandestine radio, furtive pamphlet and whispered word of mouth, they warned the peasants to boycott the polls on pain of death. To make sure that their message was understood, during election week Viet Cong terrorists killed 190 civilians, wounded 426 and kidnaped another...
...Euzennat and Salviat had won the support of Malraux. Unmoved, Marseille's mayor, Gaston Defferre, claimed that the city would lose 2,000 jobs and millions of dollars if construction stopped. He offered to rebuild the walls elsewhere, but the scientists balked. "If you transfer these walls, you destroy them...
...particularly enthusiastic about his operatic output, which already includes not only small, occasional pieces such as Prince, but also a fullscale, splashy setting of Novelist Graham Greene's spy fantasy, Our Man in Havana. Finding the proper operatic text is a huge problem. "I need something I can destroy," Williamson says, "a play that I can take apart and rebuild my own way. Verdi got this kind of thing from the trashy plays of his fellow romantics, adapted by saintly and compliant librettists. It's not so easy any more." Probably for this reason, the libretto...
...bombing, for instance, but said that he really did not disagree with House Republican Leader Gerald Ford, who advocates more intensive aerial warfare. "If there is going to be bombing," said Romney, "we should bomb in a more effective way." Moreover, he argued, no amount of bombing will destroy the Viet Cong infrastructure in the South, which is the real goal to achieve before...
Toward the end of World War II, Eugen Kielbasa, a German U-boat commander, torpedoes an Allied freighter in the South Atlantic. The skipper then orders his young gunnery officer, Emil Kummerol, to destroy all "floating wreckage"-including a dozen helpless survivors. Otherwise, he explains to his shocked crew, Allied planes and subchasers would detect and destroy the U-boat. One of the helpless seamen survives machine-gunning, grenade tossing, ramming, and torturous exposure to the sea. Because of his testimony, Kielbasa and Kummerol are eventually brought before an international war-crimes tribunal. The captain's defense is that...