Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Section 3 would wipe out this balance by giving the legislature an exclusive, if residual, authority. Congress has been no less prone to abuse authority than the President, no less in need of the restraints inherent in a checks and balance system. Once Bricker had his way, the hundreds of agreements which diplomacy requires daily would become so many levers by which Congressmen could pry out of the executive satisfaction for their peeves and private theories...
...like a swimmer's over the surging sea of humanity while official loudspeakers blared: "Please, please, we don't want to mangle the new President." At last Magsaysay was lifted to the shoulders of some of his constituents while others tried to reach up and wipe the sweat from his streaming brow. When he reached his car, one sleeve of his sport shirt had been torn off. His pants were saved only by the safety pins with which he had foresightedly fastened them to his undershirt...
...burnished wrack burns in yon western sky," she tells herself as she watches a sunset. But Cress never writes this sort of thing in her notebooks ("The Poems of Crescent Delahanty, Volume III"); there she strives for something starker and more modern, e.g., "You do not have to wipe the noses of your dreams...
...last week to talk about business under the Republican Administration. Having racked up a record year in output, it was small wonder the manufacturers thought that doing business under the G.O.P. was just fine. But they were soon reminded that the new Administration can wave no magic wand to wipe out taxes and Government deficits...
...Republican move to wipe out controls was a disastrous one, the Minority leader stated. As a result of "their dangerous leadership," the American people have become "engendered with fear...