Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief aims of President Pedro Aramburu and the officers around him-as mirrored by their own words and deeds-took firm shape last week. They intend to wipe out the cult of Juan Peron, free the economy from strangling Peronist controls and then run off fair elections. The week saw dramatic steps toward all three ends...
...starts with the fact that in this state the Negro is both plentiful and terribly backward, and is thus both a political and social problem. It does no good to blame backwardness on Segregation over the years; this discrimination may be the cause, but its recognition does not wipe out the backwardness...
Reiterating its faith in the continued growth of the U.S. economy, the Administration last week came close to outright prediction that tax revenues, higher than estimated, plus careful cost-cutting, can wipe out the $1.7 billion federal deficit and balance the budget. After discussing proposed 1957 expenses with the President at Gettysburg, Budget Director Rowland Hughes told reporters that the Government's income should match its estimated $63 billion outgo, not only in 1957 but in the current fiscal year ending June...
...inoculated in the 5-to-9 age groups than among non-inoculated-25% to 50% fewer cases. On the strength of these figures-and with prospects for improved, safer vaccine-Crusader Basil O'Connor of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis predicted that the U.S. will wipe out the paralytic form of the disease in seven to ten years...
...Mikoyan danced an Armenian folk dance in the center of a group of singing diplomats and Russians, led by Bolshoi Theater stars. Molotov and Khrushchev sang old Russian folk songs, and First Deputy Premier Kaganovich got so emotional over a song called I Met You that he had to wipe the tears from his eyes...