Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great nation. It was impossible to dismiss him as a mountebank, a paper hanger. The suffering and desolation that he wrought was beyond human power or fortitude to compute. The ruin in terms of human lives was forever incalculable. It had required a coalition of the whole world to destroy the power his political inspiration had contrived. How had it happened? If it was necessary to exterminate Hitler and his works, it was equally necessary to try to understand...
...blew up, got red in the face, threw the magazine down on his desk, ranted about how we were out to destroy him, then marched around his desk and shook his fist in my face. "People remember other people for one thing," he ranted on. "They remember Calvin Coolidge for wearing an Indian headdress. They remember Arthur Godfrey for buzzing the tower at Teterboro Airport. They will remember me for posing for a clothing magazine...
...most of it is aimed at America. "Our babies die because of you!" shouts a woman dressed in a black chador with a tiny weeping child in her arms. "We need peace and milk, not war!" cries another. "We have nothing left," chimes in a third. "War will only destroy us all over again." Their faces contort in fury and frustration as they grab our sleeves, desperate for money and attention...
...reminded of the words of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche: "Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful." A prominent plaque bearing this caveat should adorn the halls of Washington as a reminder that insidious power can destroy our great institutions, even the presidency. VICTOR E. DELUCIA Valley Village, Calif...
...Soviets found to their chagrin that "reform communism" is an oxymoron, and since coercion and state terror were the only gluing mechanism of the USSR, any reform experiment meant to give their socialism a "human face" was bound to destroy the very pillars of that system. It was the Czechs' and Slovaks' attempts to make sense of an alien ideology during 1968, however, and its eventual crushing by Soviet hardware, that infected the Soviet Union's politics 20 years later, leading to the sensational death of a bloody tyranny...