Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration's emergency plans certainly can be criticized on one point: with the demonstrators roaming outside the walls, U.S. personnel should have been able to destroy all documents. The Marine guards held off the mob long enough to enable officials to shred important classified files and smash encoding equipment. No serious security breach is believed to have occurred. But embarrassing documents did fall into the hands of the invaders, and they have been successfully used to inflame mobs in Iran...
...smooth and flawless as ever. Only when he told movingly of how his father had lost his job at Christmas time during the Great Depression did Reagan let his emotions show, nearly choking up. Vowed Reagan: "I cannot and will not stand by while inflation and joblessness destroy the dignity of our people." His voice also wavered at the same point in an identical TV speech broadcast that evening by about 90 stations, at a cost of some...
EVERY TIME it rains, an industrial landfill near Niagara Falls turns red with leaking chemicals. One of those chemicals is called dioxin; three ounces of it, properly distributed, would destroy the entire population of New York City. There are two thousand pounds of dioxin in the landfill...
Obviously, that government has to come down, and they know it. Their interpretation is that the I.R.A. is trying to destroy them...
...privacy and public self-revelations. "Literary confessors," he once wrote, "are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books." He argued repeatedly that a writer's private correspondence should stay that way and urged friends to destroy his letters to them. At the same time, employing his poetic license, he reveled in scandal, luxuriated in gossip. "Who," he asked BBC listeners during the 1930s, "would rather learn the facts of Augustus' imperial policy than discover that he had spots on his stomach...