Word: destroyer
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...pull myself together at half past eleven and begin my serious drinking at half past four." And: "Evening comes or even noon and some combination of nervous tensions obscures my memories of what whiskey costs me in the way of physical and intellectual well-being. I could very easily destroy myself. It is ten o'clock now and I am thinking about the noontime snort...
Absolutely, say American officers. The aim of the U.S.-led coalition at that point was not just to push Saddam Hussein's army out of Kuwait but also to destroy the offensive capability that had made it a regional menace. A great deal of that offensive capability consisted of vehicles on the road to Basra. The Iraqis driving them in many cases were members of Saddam's Republican Guard who at least initially were conducting an orderly fighting retreat. The allies were determined to give them no breathing space to pull themselves together to make a stand -- or to regroup...
...movie stars Wesley Snipes as a flashy and ruthless crack dealer. Rap artist Ice-T, Judd Nelson and director Mario Van Peebles play police officers out to destroy his drug empire. The drug dealer is eventually brought to justice, but is not punished. Instead, a citizen takes the law into his own hands...
...integrated with other allied contingents. Overflights of France by U.S. B-52 bombers on their way to Iraq were promptly permitted, as was the big planes' refueling at a French air base. Braving critics who accused him of becoming "a vassal" of the Americans, Mitterrand endorsed the need "to destroy Iraq's military- industrial potential...
...Iraq border, American and British troops pushing eastward after their flanking maneuver through the desert finally broke the Republican Guard. Schwarzkopf had defined these troops as the "center of gravity" of the Iraqi forces. Said a senior Army staff officer: "The whole campaign was designed on one theme: to destroy the Republican Guard...