Word: raze
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...been chiefly partisans and leftists. But if they did not build for all men instead of political parties, all mankind instead of a social class, their work would be patchwork, their tenure, as history reckons time, brief. And the despairing inhabitants would probably ask the next crew to raze the old house to the ground and start building over again from the ground...
...artillerymen, getting set to raze the monument, learned that it contained a handful of Allied prisoners. Two U.S. officers went up to parley with the German colonel. They had dinner with him, smoked his cigars. At 2 a.m. a white flag went up over the "Battle of the Nations" monument...
Forced out of its studios by the University's decision to raze Shepherd Hall, the Crimson Network will move into quarters on the ground floor of Dudley Hall, the Commuters Center. Moving day will be on or about May 11, and broadcasting will continue uninterrupted while the new station is being...
...times, we shall destroy not only the city of the Popes and capital of Christendom . . . but destroy our own prestige and thereby make a decent peace almost impossible. Countless millions of people in Europe and in South America would turn resolutely from the nation which . . . dared to raze the beloved shrines of the Christian centuries...
...fixed determination to destroy Hitler's Army and to punish, man by man, Hitler's henchmen. He has, they say, a fanatical desire to keep hammering the Germans, to keep them rolling, never to let them get set for a counteroffensive. Some say he wants to raze Berlin, as so many Russian cities have been razed. They are unanimous in believing that there is no thought of a negotiated peace in his stubborn mind. They are satisfied that the reason he did not attend the Casablanca conference was that he was busy at his desk directing the crucial...