Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...destructive power, capable of creating explosions of a new order of magnitude, dwarfing the mushroom clouds of Hiroshima and Nagasaki . . . The war of the future would be one in which man could extinguish millions of lives at one blow, demolish the great cities of the world, wipe out the cultural achievements of the past-and destroy the very structure of civilization . . . Such a war is not a possible policy for rational men. We know this, but we dare not assume that others would not yield to the temptation science is now placing in their hands." Then Truman moved carefully...
This display of armed might was Britain's answer to the Mau Mau (rhymes with bow-wow), the African secret society that threatens to wipe out Kenya's 30,000 whites (TIME, Oct. 27). Part land hunger, part savage revolution against the domineering white man and the bewildering 20th century, the Mau Mau's blind fury could, if left unchecked, turn the Crown Colony of Kenya into another Malaya. Once pooh-poohed as mere "press exaggeration," the Mau Mau have already mutilated scores of whites and "loyal" blacks, with their favorite weapon, the panga-a long, machete...
...Interstate Commerce Commission plan to reorganize the Missouri Pacific Railroad, Robert R. Young has lost every battle. Last week it looked as if he might yet win the war. Young has objected to the plan because it would give control of the 10,000-mile MoPac to the bondholders, wipe out the common stockholders, including Young. His Alleghany Corp. holds 49% of MoPac stock and, if stockholders got a voice, might control the road. Last spring, when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the case, it looked as if Young was finished...
Questions. As Dr. Tompsett was careful to point out in London, bacilli can still be found in most patients with TB of the lungs after months of isoniazid treatment. So there is no reason to believe that the drug can really wipe out the disease. Nobody knows how long the drug can be given at a stretch, or how soon its effects may wear off after it is withdrawn...
...confident, he said, but not complacent. So long as any sizable number of Malaya's peaceful Chinese colony sympathizes with the guerrillas, it is doubtful whether the British can wipe the guerrillas out entirely. The problem is to give Malaya's 2,500,000 economically powerful Chinese some kind of political voice without stirring up the peninsula's 2,500,000 indigenous Malays...