Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...balance. And to the Federal Treasury, which already holds some $75,000,000 of Saskatchewan notes, he added cheerily: "We are not concerned over giving the Dominion Government more treasury bills. . . . We believe that we shall soon have a Federal Government in power in Ottawa that will wipe out the treasury bills...
...Japs' backing & filling, while increasing their already preponderant power, was puzzling. Of one thing observers were sure: it was now or never for the Japs. Within 60 days the Ledo-Burma supply route should be open. Thereafter, the Japs' last chance to cut China in half and wipe out U.S. A.A.F. bases near the China coast would be lost...
Exercise in Futility. But the Japs had no air cover, no sea support; the Allies had plenty. The attack, dubbed by MacArthur "a hazardous movement of doubtful success," faltered. The enemy paused to regroup, but while he did so, American reinforcements arrived in time to wipe out the Japs on the west side of the Driniumor. Like their comrades on New Britain and Bougainville, who were also cut off, the Japs had no hope of victory or of rescue. Unlike their comrades on Saipan they could still hide out and make the miserable best of the jungle...
...read the article about not having to wipe dishes in TIME, June 19. [Doctors recommend rinsing in 170° water.] I am eleven years old and have to dry dishes. The story didn't work on my mother so I still have to wipe them. I wish you would write something a little more stern...
Censorship was lifted last week from one of the great scientific discoveries of World War II. It is an insecticide called DDT. DDT stopped a typhus epidemic in Naples. It promises to wipe out the mosquito and malaria, to liquidate the household fly, cockroach and bedbug, to control some of the most damaging insects that prey on the world's crops. Lieut. Colonel A. L. Ahnfeldt, of the U.S. Surgeon General's office, exclaimed last week: "DDT will be to preventive medicine what Lister's discovery of antiseptics was to surgery...