Word: ruine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbus of New Haven, the President reiterated that his policy would be one, in no sense of "indifference," but absolutely of "nonintervention" with the Mexican Government in its domestic war on the Catholic Church. 2) Charles Edward Coughlin, the loud Michigan radio priest who once cried "Roosevelt or Ruin" and since has differed with the New Deal on several issues, made the breach definite. He publicly proclaimed: "Today I humbly stand before the American public to admit that I have been in error. . . . Like a grotesque Colossus, this Administration stands astride the two extremities of social error...
...sugarmen, howls of positive pain from sugar-beet growers of Colorado, Utah, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Michigan. With independence goes a U. S. duty on Philippine sugar which, unless it is tempered by U. S. Tariff Commission experts now probing the situation in Manila, may prove the Islands' agricultural ruin...
...This nation will never fall beneath the conquering tread of an invader. It will never be lured to chaos and destruction by the red flag of Communism. If this Government is destined to follow the course of human history and, in the fullness of time, to fall into ruin and decay, it will perish as the result of official dishonesty and corruption within the State and nation...
...quashed. Glamorous Aaron Burr went on to 29 more years of life and a succession of political intrigues which were as consistently disastrous as his amatory adventures were successful. Blennerhassett went back to his island in the Ohio. Bankrupt and heartbroken at his mansion's ruin, Blennerhassett moved farther south, settling on 1,000 acres of cotton land at St. Catherine's, Miss. Meantime, Blennerhassett Island had been rented to a friend, who subsequently was dispossessed. Creditors took over the estate, leased it to a farmer who stowed part of his hemp crop in one of the wings...
...covering one-twentieth of the sky, lighting the night with baleful splendor. The lunar mountains, four miles high, will crack and crumble. Earth will shudder, open tremendous crevasses. The rain of moon fragments, falling as meteorites heated by atmospheric friction, will make steaming cauldrons of the seas, a smoking ruin of the land. At 20,000 miles what remains of the moon will break in two. then into successively smaller pieces, some of which, falling into satellitic orbits, will form glowing rings around Earth like those around Saturn. By that time, though, no human eye will be left...