Word: wipe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...deeply thoughtful. The most eloquent of the abolitionists was yellow-haired Bevanite Sydney Silverman, whose sarcastic, extreme left-wing speeches usually irritate the House; in this debate he heard a rare cheer as he urged "free men, free women, free Members of Parliament in a free society to wipe this dark stain from our statute books...
Commercial interests are the strongest opponents of the slum pattern, because their investment is normally centered on the local market. A restaurant or haberdashery cannot simply move somewhere else, for to do so means to wipe out the existing source of revenue. Yet to remain means strangulation, as traffic slows, parking problems make stores inaccessible, and the clientele is down-graded...
Like many a disillusioned man, Bhave has changed his attitude from a vague idealism to a desperate radicalism. Said he, dashing aside the garlands that were thrust upon him last week: "Bhoodan stands for land revolution by abolishing private ownership. I want to wipe out individual land ownership...
...visitors are walking through the brand-new Los Angeles Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to see the largest and most magnificent of the ten Mormon temples in the world.* On Feb. 18 the temple will be closed to repair the carpets and wipe out the finger smudges left by this invasion. After its dedication on March 11, the temple may be visited only by Mormons in good standing-and by these only after they put on white robes and slippers...
...last seven years, 32 countries have cured almost 10 million people of yaws, with the help of the World Health Organization and the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. Last week the biggest anti-yaws campaign in history was forming. Its goal: to wipe yaws from the African continent within ten years by examining nearly 100 million Africans, discovering and treating all the continent's victims...