Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experience with the Skunk family--those gauche Skunks, you know, my dear--have wailed long and loudly about the rights of other citizens to remain sweet-smelling. Farmers complain that skunks dig up bumble bees and not only make them so ill-tempered that they attack without warning, but destroy them as well, preventing the pollenization of the clover. Against such charges, even the skunks retire in confusion...
After hearing the appeal, Sir Thomas Inskip ruled, in effect, that British police shall pounce upon, confiscate and destroy all unsold copies of The Well of Loneliness. Said Sir Thomas, hotly, to reporters: "I consider this the most subtle, demoralizing, corrosive and corruptive book ever written...
Cacodyl isocyanide, new, vicious compound of poisonous cyanogen, kills instantly. It would, he commented with juggernaut impassivity, "destroy armies as a man might snuff out a candle. . . . War, if it comes again, and is to be deadly, will never again be fought with shot & shell. It can't be, for it is too much cheaper to destroy life wholesale with this new gas. It may be manufactured at the rate of thousands of tons a day and it costs much less than powder & cannon, yet it will destroy armies more thoroughly, more effectively, and more cheaply...
...young man, however, by knowing the secret of the atom, appears to have gained the ability to destroy the entire world at a moment's notice. After two acts of argument, this is the necessity with which he is faced, and the Cabinet sits, engaged in nervous little pastimes, waiting for doom, while a clock ticks and the audience remembers happily that it is all a play. Then one member of the Cabinet gets the bright idea of murdering the scientist...
...proceeded to Arlington Centre then known as the Village of Menotomy. The return of the British was over the same route. The troops which were able to cross Charles River at the foot of what is now Boylston Street owing to the negligence of the patriots, who failed to destroy the timbers of the bridge after removing them, was the relief column led by Lord Percy, the arrival of which at Lexington saved the British from being wiped out. This relief came as a result of the request of Major Pitcairn when he discovered at Lexington by the presence...