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Word: destructionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The other 97% of U.S. bombing effort is actually used to fight war on the ground. The ground war has no strategic objective. U.N. commanders would just as soon be where they are as to be 50 or 100 miles farther north. Destruction of the Chinese army in Korea is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Ultimatum? | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

In eight years, the Agriculture Department spent more than half a billion dollars trying to keep up the price of potatoes. It burned them, gave them away, let them rot and tried dozens of other schemes of destruction. Finally, a year ago, Congress forced it to give up and let...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: Potato Trouble Again | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

"All this, while intended and designed to strengthen freedom's defense," he says, "carries within itself the very germs of freedom's destruction. For it etches the pattern to a military state which, historically under the control of professional military thinking, in constant search for means toward efficiency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL DEFENSE: The Antimilitarist | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

On a warm July evening in 1896, a bicyclist passing through the Yard heard a and explosion. Investigating, he discovered smoke pouring from under the even of Boylston Hall and alerted two policemen nearby. Firemen soon arrived with hook and ladder but refrained from using water, which might have caused...

Author: By Jonathan O. Swan, | Title: Circling the Square | 12/19/1951 | See Source »

In the lead editorial, the editors praise the People's Liberation Army on that group's first birthday. They call on it to help China which has "suffered a century of ravages and destruction by the feudalist-imperialist forces."

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: On the Shelf | 11/27/1951 | See Source »

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