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Word: destructionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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No one, said Sorokin, wants to "send sex back to the barroom, the back alley and the whispered snicker . . . But neither can we afford to stand idly by while the conclusions of some well-meaning but misguided investigators are cited to justify the destruction of the moral system which has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Sex or Snake Oil? | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

The Big Needle. The agreement to confer was disposed of in a couple of short paragraphs, but the great bulk of the 3,000-word Soviet note was taken up with needling Eisenhower for failing to call for "unconditional banning of atomic and hydrogen weapons, as well as other types...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Conditional Acceptance | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

As Frollo, the warped High Justice, Sir Cedric Hard wicke is the menacing, sadistic, downright despicable villain he should be. But Edmond O'Brien in the role of the young poet Gringoire is a little too enthusiastic and shallow when he shouts about the destruction of a printing press, "Its...

Author: By E. H. Harvey, | Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame | 12/16/1953 | See Source »

The office which this man embodies is the oldest witness of Western civilization. One of his predecessors faced Attila on his march to Rome; another preached the first Crusade against Islam; another excommunicated Martin Luther; another was taken prisoner by Napoleon.* It is an office that has often been near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Urbi et Orbi | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

According to some observers, Morgenthau's fiscal knowledge was very limited and he relied on White for considerable advice. White was author of the so-called Morgenthau Plan for destruction of German industry.

Author: By William M. Beecher, | Title: White Case in Perspective: Politics and Laxity | 12/11/1953 | See Source »

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