Word: destroys
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...would sully the beauty and serenity of the campus. Women point to the expensive yards of Oriental carpeting in the living rooms, the numerous expensive grand pianos, and the acres upon acres of beautifully manicured green grass and gardens, and say that the natural roughness of men might destroy the prettiness of the setting...
...soft on communism or try to redistribute the world's wealth. But however unlikely, even the possibility of Kissinger's political resurrection is horrifying. No man in this country ever deserved more to be tried as a war criminal; no American ever deserved less another chance to kill and destroy...
...force would destroy what is left of détente, accelerate the U.S.-Soviet arms race and damage Soviet prestige in the East bloc and the Third World. Relations with the incoming Reagan Administration might never thaw. Said a U.S. State Department official: "There is no facet of international affairs in which the Soviets would not lose." Western economic reprisals would be swift and painful; the European allies, which had little taste for the Afghanistan embargoes imposed by the U.S., would be far more responsive concerning Poland. Sales of grain and sophisticated technology to the Soviets might well be shelved...
...Tengjiao, one of five military officers on trial with the Gang, on separate charges of plotting to assassinate Mao The former general confessed that Jiang sent him to Shanghai to ransack the homes of her former friends. His mission according to the Chinese press, was to seek out and destroy letters, pictures and diaries that might contain embarrassing information about Madame Mao's early career as an actress in grade-B movies...
...named Mirek tries to retrieve and destroy the love letters he sent a mistress of his youth. He wants to obliterate the fact that he ever loved such an ugly woman. He is, in fact, unconsciously aping the Czech rulers who are persecuting him; he feels "an uncontrollable urge, an urge to reach far back into the past and smash it with his fist, an urge to slash the canvas of his youth to shreds...