1 May 14, 1948. Manages passage of Mundt-Nixon bill, the first piece of legislation passed by the House Committee on Un-American Activities in ten years, providing for the annual registration of members of the Communist party.  July 5, 1948. Daughter Julie Nixon is born.
To destroy is defined as to damage, ruin or spoil something beyond repair. When you drive a truck into a house and totally demolish it, this is an example of a situation where you destroy the house. 1  to tear down; demolish. 2  to break up or spoil completely; ruin.
1. Ravage, devastate, lay waste all refer, in their literal application, to the wholesale destruction of a countryside by an invading army (or something comparable). Lay waste has remained the closest to the original meaning of destruction of land: The invading army laid waste the towns along the coast.