Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really whether Brazil should get development loans, but when. The Vargas administration would naturally like to start some badly needed projects right away. But Washington-notably the World Bank, which is supplanting the Export-Import Bank as the primary lending agency - feels that Brazil must strengthen its currency, wipe out its trade deficit, and check credit inflation before it can take on any more debt, even for the worthiest of projects...
Third stage was to wipe out savings accounts and under-the-mattress hoardings. The Reds did this by decreeing that all the old crowns had to be exchanged at a rate ranging from 50 to 1 down to 5 to 1. The wealthiest Czechs with the largest holdings would receive the least in return; only small savings accounts of 5,000 crowns ($100) or less would be exchanged at the 5 to 1 rate. Result: to deprive workers and peasants of their earnings, force them to work harder to stay alive in the proletarian paradise...
...Simba ("The Lion") wrote last week to a white settler: "I have just returned from a course for brigadiers in Abyssinia, and have under my command one division of 12,000 men, 400 machine guns, 300 Bren guns, 100 Sten guns, 10,000 rifles and 40 mortars . . . I could wipe out 50 battalions . . ." Next day, with a band of hand-picked warriors, he struck hard at the settler's estate...
...wish Ike would wipe that eternal grin off his face and make a few enemies. McCarthy, for instance...
...heavy deficits or buying football teams--a choice dictated first by the fact that Harvard's huge athletic plant can be maintained only if oiled by gate receipts (otherwise its cost cuts too deeply into the College's more important functions), and second, that lop-sided games all but wipe out those receipts...