Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another war will wipe everybody off the face of the earth," mused Nobel Physicist Arthur H. Compton, with scientific caution. "That's pretty extreme. And it won't destroy civilization -there'll be some pieces left. But it will be an enormous setback. We'll have to start all over, from 'way back...
...Department of Agriculture has already spent $35 million on a slaughter program in Mexico and failed to wipe out the disease (TIME, Dec. 8). Now, because of the rebellion of Mexican campesinos, who could not understand why their cattle should be given up to slaughter, the killing has been stopped (except animals actually infected) in favor of quarantine and vaccination of all Mexican cattle. But Bob Kleberg storms that neither of these methods has ever proved effective unless accompanied by slaughter and burial...
...this financial stroke, Italy hoped to 1) wipe out the domestic black market in lira, and 2) add to its store of dollars by encouraging U.S. remittances, the tourist trade and export trade to the U.S. The chances seemed excellent that Italy would accomplish both...
...escapes were even narrower than they knew. They built their blockhouse at Fort Mandan, some 1,100 miles up the Missouri, just before the Sioux held a war council. After they crossed the Rockies and were resting, exhausted, before descending the Pacific slope, the Nez Perce Indians decided to wipe them out. The Nez Perces were dissuaded (according to tribal tradition) by a squaw who had once been befriended by some white trappers...
...said Zacharias, now has atom bombs 50 times more powerful than those that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But there are other weapons in the new alphabet of destruction: 1) bacteriological bombs containing either botulinus toxin or psittacosis virus; 2) a U.S. -developed biological spray that "can wipe out all forms of life in a large city"; 3) some sort of military application of cosmic rays which is now, he thought, being developed by Russian scientists...