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Word: destruc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...risk of uprooting themselves to come to the New World, he says, the nation's genetic stock and national culture should be heavily Type T. "If I'm right on that," Farley conjectures, "we should be an enormously vital nation with both T-plus, creative people, and T-minus, destruc tive people, both overrepresented." He adds, "We should--and do--have very high crime rates relative to many other countries of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Looking for a Life of Thrills | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...Although we are entirely opposed to weapons of mass destruc- tion, I suppose many of my colleagues would support conven tional weapons of one kind or another. No one at C.N.D. is suggesting that any country abandon all military defense." The C.N.D. wants Britain emptied of nuclear weapons because, says Kent, "we are not prepared to be the first casualties in a war between the superpowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disarming Threat to Stability | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

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