Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, four days later, a thing too big to be called a "pineapple" failed to explode in the South Water Street market when wet snow snuffed out its sputtering fuse. It contained 17 sticks of dynamite, enough to wipe out an entire city block...
...Chinese Nationalist Government, now firmly and respectably established at Nanking, wants to wipe from U. S. memories the fact that one year ago, when its soldiers took Nanking, they looted much U. S. property and killed one U. S. citizen* (TIME, April...
After the vote, triumphant lights twinkled far into the night at the sumptuous Managua residence of famed onetime President of Nicaragua, General Emiliano Chamorro. He had defeated the bill. His potent, ancestral family controls the Conservative electorate of Nicaragua; and that control enabled General Chamorro to wipe out, last week, his old score against the U. S. State Department, which refused to recognize a government set up by him, some years ago, after a coup d'etat...
...allowed "the Red Light District to crawl to the very steps of the State Capital." His charges were almost wholly unfounded, but that is to be expected in any political utterance of the kind. Its relative lack of truth was not what caused Republican leaders hastily to wipe their hands of the whole affair...
...indicted for a get-rich-quick-scheme. ... If he will go before the grand jury and tell the whole truth [about corrupt Indiana politics], regardless of whom it may affect and whatever it may cost ... he will have performed a public service that will do much to wipe out the stain upon his own name." Indeed soon after his release, the Marion Grand Jury† planned to call Mr. McCray to testify on the subject of the Klu Klux Klan offer alleged to have been made by present Governor of Indiana Ed Jackson...