Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government considers as nefarious the exploitation of discontent. . . . The Government asks everyone to measure his words and actions. It would be bad to cultivate an atmosphere of doubt, criticism, grumbling ... to destroy the union that Government is trying its best to maintain. ..." (Cold silence from the Left...
...time the German General Staff ... remove all ... militarist influences." Political and economic disarmament would be equally complete and rigorous: "....Eliminate or control all German industry that could be used for military production . . . wipe out the Nazi party, Nazi laws, organizations and institutions. . . . It is not our purpose to destroy the people of Germany. But only when Naziism and militarism have been extirpated will there be hope for a decent life for Germans. . . ." Reparations. Germany must pay "to the greatest extent possible." A commission sitting in Moscow will add up the bill, collect "in kind" (i.e., in goods and labor...
Some 15 years ago Benito Mussolini tried and failed to destroy the Maffia. He jailed its leaders in cages, marched them in chain gangs through the streets. But at last he had to concede: "The struggle against the Maffia will cease, not when the Maffia has ceased to exist, but when all memory of the Maffia has vanished from the minds of Sicilians." Last week the Maffia was making new memories which might keep Sicily in turmoil for some time to come. The Maffia had seldom had more volcanic soil to work...
...recently been acquitted of the mercy-killing of his wife. Before he has worked his way out of his difficulties, he has discovered that a clairvoyant, an old bookseller, a Cabinet minister, a tailor and, he fears, the girl he loves (Marjorie Reynolds) are involved in an effort to destroy his nation...
...public debt of Australia is relatively much greater than that of the United States. And we are not worried." Australia, Copland argued, had set up the machinery necessary to regulate national expenditure, distribute national spending power, destroy the restrictive practices of monopoly, and insure sufficient mobility of the factors of production...