Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the lingering flap, Actress Hayes, in a letter last week to weekly Variety, said: "There were times, late in the run, when Kim would have tried the patience of a saint, with her striving for [an] opening-night level of performance-even on rainy Thursdays. But nothing will wipe out the shining memory of ... the all too rare thrill of working with a perfect actress...
...guest at an exclusive dinner party, Michiko's millionaire industrialist father sat in embarrassed silence while kazoku guests addressed each other loudly over his head, complaining at the way things were going, and blaming all their troubles on the nouveaux riches and the "postwar millionaires." Ultranationalists threatened to "wipe out" the entire Shoda family. The police, aware of how often in Japan assassination has been a means of political or emotional protest, keep the Shoda house under constant guard...
...After strenuous but unpromising efforts to wipe out the fire ant, which first invaded the South and is now spreading (TIME, March 18, 1957), Louisiana State University scientists reported hopes of turning the pest to medical advantage. Its venom, they said, kills not only insects but also mites (resistant to most insecticides) and, more surprisingly, contains a potent substance like an antibiotic that kills many bacteria and molds...
Germany gains from never having had colonies in the Mideast and, by shunning long-term investments in the area, West German businessmen continue to avoid the dread label "imperialist." Fury over British policy in Cyprus helped wipe out Gfeek memories of the harsh World War II German occupation, has played a big part in the Greek choice of West Germany as its new economic mentor. In Arab countries, the Suez invasion gave German traders a big edge over the British and French. "And why not?" asks one West German businessman. "We have clean hands...
Those who mitigate the danger of the missile gap argue that the aggressor would need more missiles than his opponent. For an aggressor presumably would initiate a mass attack only if he calculated that he could avoid being devastated in retaliation. To do this he would need to wipe out his opponents' missile arsenals, besides his cities, and this would necessitate expending a large number of rockets to allow for underground installation and inaccurate firings. The United States, it is thus argued, would not need as many missiles as the Soviet Union, for we require only enough to discourage their...