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Word: destructionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barely 72 hours later, the Communist military commander for the Fukien district of South China, who may not be a madman but hardly qualifies as a preserver of the peace, sent crashing out an entirely different message, addressed to the Nationalist Chinese garrison entrenched on Quemoy Island: "No military works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: Probing Action | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

In Cairo, fountain of most of this hate, Egyptian officials hotly complained that half a dozen secret radio stations now "attack President Nasser personally in round-the-clock propaganda assaults.'' Pressed for a sample broadcast from the clandestine stations (located, say the Egyptians, on the French Riviera, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Sounds in a Summer Night | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

On hand for the Soviet Union's three "National Days" at the Brussels World's Fair, small, smooth President Kliment E. Voroshilov reeled out a party line of chatter while moving in and out of pavilions. Coming model-boyishly away from a U.S.-style voting machine, he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 25, 1958 | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

By 1965 he foresees hemisphere-sized battlefields ("Africa is the key to the defense of Europe"), upon which infantrymen, armed with shoulder-fired nuclear guns, will be deployed and supplied by airplane, supported by 1,500-mile missile batteries mobile enough to avoid destruction, provided with observation by robot planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Atom-Age Army | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

Furthermore, had the Archbishop actually said that God might "will" man's end in nuclear war? No, declared Toronto's Canon H. R. Hunt, general secretary of the Anglican Church of Canada. The Archbishop had simply noted that God's providence leaves man's fate up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Atom & the Archbishop | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

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