Word: destructionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For Limón himself, there was a toothsome part as the benign god Quetzalcoatl. He grapples in conflict throughout the four cycles of creation and destruction with the malignant god Tezcatlipoca (Lucas Hoving). In the end, Quetzalcoatl triumphs and the earth is saved.
Ready to Cross? "We have now substantially cleared South Korea of organized Communist forces . . . The enemy's human wave tactics definitely [have] failed . . . With the development of existing methods of mass destruction, numbers alone do not offset vulnerability inherent in . . . deficiencies . . . [in] tanks, heavy artillery and other refinements science...
Sorokin admitted that his plan for peace might not be practicable. "If not," he continued, "all the easy palliatives of Hoover and Taft lead to full-scale destruction. It is better to prepare for full war than subscribe to these."
But Costello was nearer to prison than he had been since the day in 1915 when he was caught carrying a pistol. He faced a perjury charge, contempt of Congress, and he might be subject to deportation as well. In three short days, Frank Costello could see the destruction of...
The fourth fall of Seoul was a sad business, something like the capture of a tomb. Only 200,000 of Seoul's original 1,500,000 population were still there. The broken city brooded over its own destruction.