Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, his greatest adversary eliminated, the Mufti schemed to wipe out his adversary's country itself. He met secretly in Cairo's Semiramis Hotel with the Foreign Ministers of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, both oldtime opponents of Abdullah and the British. They agreed on a plan to tack Jordan on to a Greater Syria. In this way they would put a finish...
...policy: "Our aims in Korea are just as clear and just as simple as the things for which we fought in the American Revolution. We did not fight that war to drive the British out of the North American continent ... to destroy the military power of England, or to wipe out the British Empire. We fought it for the simple, limited aim of securing the right to be free . . . We are not fighting [in Korea] ... to conquer China, or to destroy...
...State Council of well-meaning but pusillanimous Sultan Abdul Mejid. A sternly upright and able young man with compassionate and liberal convictions, Midhat was soon serving as a trouble-shooter in one tense corner after another of the sprawling Ottoman empire. His determined efforts to abolish slave labor, wipe out anti-Christian discrimination and establish schools and colleges went far to pacify Turkey's perennially rebellious Balkan provinces and to infuriate the Russians, who dreamed of a Balkan empire all their...
...Warrior of Liberation." Tsung's army crossed the Imjin last month. On May 15 it headed for the Han, to wipe out the U.N. bridgehead. The Manchurian farmer's battalion had twelve field pieces, and his platoon operated two of the 76-mm. pieces, with 60 rounds for each gun. Supplies of shells got up to the front pretty regularly...
...equivalent of what would have been excess profits. There is a simpler way: the money might be donated to an educational institution, Dartmouth College, for example, of which Beardsley Ruml is a trustee. And there is a still simpler way. Let the officers vote themselves bonuses so as to wipe out what would have been excess profits...