Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some $20,000 over the years for scores, supplies, and an occasional pair of pants or a dinner for a broke but promising musician. As he nervously, conscientiously whips his musicians through the hoops, his courtroom manner vanishes : "I raise hell with them ... I work myself into a wreck . . . but I keep my dignity...
Checking up later, U.S. officers found four more Japanese troop carriers crashed near the airstrip with some 70 occupants dead, and estimated that the original Giretsu attack had included up to twelve plane loads. Apparently the "unsurpassed loyalists" hoped to wreck the airfield, then filter into U.S. lines for sabotage...
...even if the hopes vested in San Francisco are not fulfilled, World War II should not have been in vain. The Nazi attempt to derail the train of history caused a near-wreck but brought doom upon its perpetrators. After such an overwhelming defeat, the enemies of civilization should not find it so easy to emerge from the sewers. And the victors, having mustered the forces of civilization, will have a stake in preserving them...
...policy; it was a new, tougher manner, and it had its dangers as well as its advantages. For the Russians, too, could play a tough game. Beyond a reasonable point, mere toughness could wreck the Big Three and doom world organization at the start...
...papers are set to run even without William Randolph Hearst.- Should they be passed on to the five Hearst sons, none of whom has shown much of his father's talent for running bad newspapers successfully, they might be in a position to misguide, but not to wreck, the empire...