Word: destructionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heffernan's decision went on: "We are not so naive as to accept as gospel the argument that a teacher who believes in the destruction of our form of government will not affect his students... The result may be accomplished by indirect, subtle insinuations; by what is left unsaid, as...
"The threat of aggression casts its shadow upon every quarter of the globe," he soberly reported to Congress last week. "The Soviet Union has dedicated itself to the destruction of democracy and everything which it represents, and is waging a grim struggle to make the entire free world slave . . . Moreover...
As a balloonist, with Captains Albert Stevens and Orvil Anderson (now an Air Force major general), he took a balloon 60,613 feet into the stratosphere before a rip in the fabric sent the bag plummeting earthward. The three bailed out -Kepner at 500 feet. Then Bill Kepner moved on...
They voted in favor of federal aid to education "without subsidizing private and parochial schools" and against racial segregation, gambling, liquor advertising and a presidential representative at the Vatican. They debated long before passing a resolution calling for "immediate cessation" of the manufacture of hydrogen bombs and all other weapons...
"The cold war is a good war. It is the only war in history where the question of destruction doesn't enter into it at all. Everything we are doing is building up. We have rebuilt Europe, not destroyed it."