Word: destroyer
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...bridge. Jordan goes through with it because he is intellectually convinced that he is helping to defeat fascism. Pilar goes through with it because she is part of the revolution and cannot stop. Pablo's strong instinct to live makes him desert at the last moment and destroy the detonator. Then he, too, realizes in his own way that "no man is an iland." He cannot stand the loneliness of desertion, returns to help dynamite the bridge...
...whom Karl Marx contemptuously dubbed "the Utopians." P.J. Proudhon, self-taught son of a barrelmaker, declared: "Property is theft." Burly, bearded Russian Michael Bakunin was transmuting his biologic impotence into an ardent anarchism-of-the-deed that longed to send the whole world up in smoke. "The desire to destroy," wrote Bakunin, "is also a creative desire." Finding some peasants milling around a German castle one day, he hopped out of his carriage, filled them so quickly with creative desire that when he took his seat again, the castle was burning on four sides...
Nations allied themselves with nations to destroy other nations, knowing that once their task was completed they would turn on their allies, even as Britain and France had turned on each other...
...Campaign Against Christian Organizations, whose doctrine, an unintended caricature of Nazi race-&-soil theories, affirms: "Japan is a land of gods. . . . Christianity offers a heaven of illusion and forces men to believe in Jesus Christ in the interests of the Jewish policy of world conquest. Such a belief would destroy Japan's policy. . . . Christianity, a device of Jewish origin which is encroaching on the Japanese spirit, must be eliminated...
...night, for 96 tense hours, Lieut. Davies and his squad burrowed. No excitement of active combat, no military ends, no instinct to destroy the enemy urged them as they grubbed 27 feet into the wet, sandy soil. They were in constant expectation of a blinding, icy flash of death. As they dug, a gas main caught fire and began to broil the bomb. Twice on the way up the bomb slipped its tackles and fell to the bottom of the hole...