Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year made ?11 million ($30.8 million) profit. His Anglo American is the biggest single holder in the immensely rich new fields of the Orange Free State, and has put up more than half of the ?200 million ($560 million) being spent to develop them. Believing that South Africa must wipe out the disgrace of its mining "kraals," where Bantu workers live like prisoners, he has led the spending of ?70 million by mine operators to develop a model village to house 100,000 _ people at the new Free State mining center near Odendaalsrust. By July he expects to start taking...
...truth is never-ending. This University must not become a hand-maiden of privilege, the breeding ground of a self-styled intellectual elite. Harvard has a well-defined role to play in the days ahead: to maintain the values which the forces of economic materialism are seeking to wipe off the face of the earth...
...plan very closely resembles that backed by President Conant, the American Association on Universities and other groups. Many people have opposed such a proposal, complaining that U.M.S. would wipe out many schools and hurt civilian professions during its first years. But, as Conant, and now Marshall, have pointed out, the short-run system of deferments should largely solve that problem. As for providing a sufficient amount of manpower for our now-weak defenses, no plan alone could be successful. We will always be dependent to some degree on voluntary enlistments And U.M.S. does supply the right answers to the questions...
Last week Dr. Patrick D. Pielou of the Dominion Parasite Laboratory at Belleville, Ont. told how he hopes to lick this problem. Dr. Pielou breeds friendly bugs called Macrocentrus (which attack the destructive Oriental fruit moth) and exposes each generation of them to DDT not quite strong enough to wipe them out. The survivors, says Dr. Pielou, grow progressively tougher. Eventually, he hopes, they will be able to ignore DDT. Then they will be released in orchards to mop up the fruit moths that have survived...
...Saigh's words for him), but Saigh had obviously had allies among the other clubs.* Moreover, the anti-Chandler owners had had an unintentional ally in Happy himself. Four days before the voting, Happy had blabbed to reporters that he thought a total U.S. mobilization would very likely wipe out professional baseball. Club owners are allergic to that kind of talk...