Word: raze
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...squadron of police, paddywagons, and moving vans evicted four families from their homes near the Harvard Business School. These four are the last of a group of eighty-five families who have been fighting for the past nine years against the plans of the Boston Redevelopment Authority to raze this low-income neighborhood and build a moderate income housing project...
...Russia by reviewing his triumphant soldiers from a stand in Leningrad's Palace Square. But three months after the invasion of Russia began and the prospects of quickly subduing Leningrad began to fade, he grew angry. The German high command declared: "The Führer has decided to raze the city of Petersburg from the face of the earth...
...February, a similarly unattended fire swept through Harvard's Dane Hall, destroying ROTC exams and valuable student records. By March, the University decided to raze what remained of the structure and plant the plot with grass...
...many so-called "evil" doings of the Viet Cong. Let us examine in turn some of the "good" doing of the American side. Let us suppose that in military operations such as Cedar Falls, the "allied forces" take every civilian out of his or her village safely, raze the village down as they did since it may be Viet Cong headquarter, then provide a nice modern house for each inhabitant along with all sorts of American "goodies" after the operation. Let us assume that if all this were true then what will the Vietnamese think...
...months the funds, where assured and it is a pleasure to announce that contracts for the new construction have now been let. Meanwhile something more than $1 million is still required properly to equip the new areas. And in the not distant future $5 million will be required to raze the Huntington Building and erect on that site a new structure for teaching and research...