Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reasonable argument could be made on either side of the question. Cambridge's future is not so clear-cut as some emerging trends make it appear. New developments will not destroy the past; they will only super-impose themselves on the existing city, producing some positive change and much uncertainty.PROPOSED INNER BELT ROUTE--CAMBRIDGE...
Stalin's henchmen made many attempts to seize or destroy the papers. One of their most spectacular--and successful--sallies occurred in November, 1936. At that time Trotsky was under house arrest in Norway, but many of the papers were hidden in a Paris apartment, supposedly out of the reach of Stalin. Nevertheless, agents of the G.P.U. (Russia's secret police at that time) located the apartment, perhaps with the aid of an agent provacateur, and they occupied the adjacent room. Then, with a torch, they cut through the intervening wall and made off with the papers...
...Search, Destroy & Hold. Despite such heavy losses, Communist troop strength in South Viet Nam has risen to a record 295,000 men. a gain that reflects stepped-up infiltration from the North and heavier recruiting; the Viet Cong has even begun drafting 14-and 15-year-olds from the villages it holds. Though the V.C. may not be winning control of more villages, they are not losing many either. Thus far, only 500 or 600 of South Viet Nam's 13,000 hamlets have been successfully and permanently secured, and General William C. Westmoreland, U.S. armed forces chief...
...even greater obstacle is that the Temple must be constructed on its original site; this could only be done by demolishing Islam's sacred Dome of the Rock, the spot from which Mohammed ascended into heaven. Despite their enmity with Arab nations, devout Jews would be reluctant to destroy the shrine of another faith...
...distorted image of everyman." Everyman? De Rais, whose atrocities many believe to be the inspiration for the Bluebeard legend, became overlord of Anjou at the age of 13, a marshal of France at 26, and he never betrayed a friend. Once, when his loyal soldiers were helping him destroy the evidence by throwing 46 rotting bodies on the flames, Gilles de Rais, in this version of the story, actually sat down and asked himself this question: "Hadn't he lived life too fully...