Word: destroyers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brother and sister leave home to wander through a place where exotic figures have the power to enchant and destroy. But the siblings are protected by an even greater force: goodness. At the end of a winding and hazardous journey, the wicked are vanquished and the children are redeemed...
These studies have demonstrated that a laser system powerful enough to destroy or disable missiles would also be able to destory aircraft, ships and entire cities. The amount of energy required to burn through the shell of an unprotected missile is about 120 times that required to ignite typical construction materials...
What is driving me up the wall is that this wasn't a failure until the press got a tip from that rag in Beirut and began to play it up. I told them that publicity could destroy this, that it could get people killed. They then went right...
...recalled for a defective platitude is a contingency that would appeal to Playwright Eugene Ionesco. A major contributor to the theater of the absurd (he prefers the term "theater of derision"), Ionesco reviews the influence of surrealists and dadaists without missing the historical joke: "They all wanted to destroy culture . . . and now they're part of our heritage." Arthur Koestler, a leading intellectual and novelist of the '30s and '40s, sounds weary and detached. "I'm vice president of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society," says the author of Darkness at Noon. The following year, he and his wife Cynthia would carry...
...point, Abbie Hoffman was advising the protesters that even if the university gave in to their demands, they should make up new ones. There was no indication that they'd leave," Leheny said. He also said that the protesters had made threats to destroy property, including computers, furniture, and telephones...