Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want to mark me a thief," he shouted, "do it today, do it before the sun goes down and let me skulk away . . . ashamed to face you tomorrow!" He reminded his colleagues that "you're in a position to destroy me, and I'm aware of it. My life is at stake. I'm not asking much. All I want is a fair shake." For all his histrionics, only three Senators-Connecticut's Abraham Ribicoff, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and Texas' John Tower-joined Long and Dodd in voting against censure...
...scrap began as a search-and-destroy operation. The floating troop carriers dropped off two U.S. infantry battalions and one ARVN battalion at three scattered points along the Rach Hui River 17 miles south of Saigon, and the troops fanned out looking for action. When one company made contact with a Viet Cong battalion on the river, the boats rushed reinforcements up, and five air strikes were called in along with armed helicopters and the miniguns of the converted C-47s known as Puff the Magic Dragon. The Monitor and troop carriers opened up at almost point-blank range with...
Much the same mixture of exhilaration and invective marked the first flush of war in the other Arab capitals. "Kill the Jews!" screamed Radio Baghdad. A Syrian commander offered the rash prediction to radio listeners that "we will destroy Israel in four days." In Damascus, schools were closed, more in celebration than precaution against air raids, and schoolchildren, singing rhythmically, filled sandbags and placed them around public buildings. Having no prepared shelters, the Syrians hastily converted two discothèques. In Beirut, supplies of laundry bluing, vegetable dye and blue paint quickly ran out as drivers rushed to darken their headlights...
Sucked In, Sealed Off. Especially important among the cells' inflammatory chemicals are enzymes, the organic catalysts that mediate reactions between other body substances and, in some cases, destroy them. Perhaps the most potent are the acid hydrolases, some of which dissolve proteins and nucleic acids. Where they were kept was a mystery until 1955, when Dr. Christian de Duve at the Catholic University of Louvain deduced from their behavior that they must be stored in some particles inside the cells. Though nobody had yet seen the particles, he named them lysosomes (dissolving bodies...
...Michigan, some virus particles can survive a spell in a digestive sac, and emerge from it with their infective powers intact. By another mechanism, lysosomes can be directly harmful: they may, for reasons not yet guessed at, attack part of their own cell's natural contents, and destroy...