Word: wreck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shell-scarred front. "If you know a better 'ole," one says sharply to the other, "go to it." Like the tommies, the Prime Minister badly needs a better 'ole. Heath is faced with a crisis that shows no sign of immediate relief-and threatens to wreck the nation's economy. His confrontation with the country's coal miners has reduced Britain to such austerity measures to conserve energy as cutting power 35%, putting industry and business on a three-day week, and shutting off television...
Since then both Protestant and Catholic extremists have vowed to wreck the new government. Faulkner seemed well prepared for the showdown. When he moved out of party headquarters last week, he took with him photographed copies of all documents, $16,000 in political funds raised earlier under his own name, and half the staff. "We are leaving behind a pretty bankrupt lot," said an aide. "All they will have left is the building and the furniture." Technically Faulkner retains his Unionist membership, but 17 Unionist members of the Assembly have remained loyal to him, and he could form...
...Peter and I entered the demolition derby that they hold in Middlebury Vt. We brought two cars, a junker to wreck and a car to drive home in. The car that we were supposed to drive home in was not in such good condition either. In fact the spectators mistook it for one of the junkers that had already been destroyed in the derby, and so many people climbed on top of it that the roof caved...
Indirectly, Nixon's irrational (or perhaps it is one of his more rationally based fears) hatred of the press has also created an umbrella under which others securely wreck the Gazetteers...
...tanks mingled with the rusting wreckage left over from the Six-Day War of 1967. Blackened bodies of slain troops littered the terrain. From Damascus to Cairo and over the neighboring countries of Lebanon and Jordan, dogfights swirled high in the sky, antiaircraft shells and missiles exploded and wreck age fell. On the ground, armies of Arabs and Israelis last week maneuvered and fought each other with an intensity never before witnessed in the seemingly endless conflict in the Middle East...