Word: destroyer
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...British bombing attack on the German base-island of Sylt off Denmark's southwest corner. Obvious object: to destroy the extensive anti-aircraft establishment there, pave the way for other raids on the naval bases. No results were announced but this week German civilians were evacuated...
...program-power, one plan-plunder, one tactic-terror; 3) this inner plunderbund secretly laughs at Nazi claptrap about race, blood, soil, considers Mein Kampf oldfashioned; 4) they plan to make Germany a base from which to conquer the world; 5) they expect a socialist "second revolution" which will destroy the last remnants of Christianity, individual freedom, reduce the German people to collective serfdom; 6) in alliance with Russia's "Genghis Khan fascism," National Socialism will then carve up the world...
...Reserve Board warned American investors against taking the unsecured paper obligations of foreign governments. Virtually the only governments whose paper of that kind was involved were England and France, whose American agent, in their pay, was J. P. Morgan & Co. ... It was Morgan & Co. who suggested the way to destroy it [the warning] was for England to threaten to cease purchasing American goods...
...Germany-Italy were one country and if it should attack Poland-then any amateur war-gamer would know what Britain-France must do. Britain-France must destroy Italy. Thus they would deliver a shattering wound to Germany-Italy, become masters of the Mediterranean from end to end and able to bring help to Poland and to the entire Eastern Front...
...ringlet of Lady Oxford's, and several bundles of adoring letters from women who worshiped Byron, some of whom had never seen him. Most were wildly exclamatory, heavily underlined with pages blotted and blistered with tears. Byron did not answer all the letters. Even those he promised to destroy he kept, since he had a magpie's passion for collecting scraps from his past...