Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of the works in the current show are done in Vinylite, which Tamayo likes because of its quick-drying qualities. And, says he: "If you don't like what you have just painted, you can wipe it out with acetone. In oils, if you decide to do something different, you paint over it, and later, ghosts appear through the overpainted...
Last December New York's irascible Congressman John Taber, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, served notice of his intention to wipe out the Administration's anticipated $3 billion deficit. But last week the year's first money bill proved to be too tightly budgeted to render much fat, even under the sizzling gaze of John Taber's practiced eyes. Taber's committee approved, and the House passed, a $3,333,241,600 appropriation for the Treasury and Post Office Departments, a cut of less than 0.2% off the $3,338,783,000 presidential estimate...
...treatment of tuberculosis (TIME, March 3, 1952) than another contender appeared: pyrazinamide, also called Aldinamide. Alone, it proved disappointing. But when the two drugs were given together, researchers at Manhattan's New York Hospital found, the combination had a truly amazing property: it was able to wipe out tuberculous infection in the spleens of mice whereas previous drugs or combinations had only arrested the growth of the bacilli. They thought they were on the brink of a momentous discovery...
According to the New York Times, Saud had said, "We ought to be able to man 10,000,000 to wipe out Israel, and if 5,000,000 are sacrificed, it is worthwhile...
...paper garlands. Then the P.W.s patted the children goodbye, cast farewell glances at the girls in the swirling skirts, and moved off toward the waiting LSTs. Starting next morning, the 14,000 sailed for a new life on Formosa. They seemed determined to return to the mainland and wipe out Mao Tse-tung. "With one heart," said one 24-year-old, "we return to Formosa. With one life, we shall eliminate the Communists...