Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sinew of the Law." What Hugo Black and dissenting brethren did not concede was that by attempting to wipe out by judicial decree the principle and practice of centuries, they were arrogating to themselves a very real sort of omnipotence. That fact was pointed out in an opinion, concurring with the majority, by Felix Frankfurter: "To be sure, it is never too late for this court to correct a misconception in an occasional decision. [But] to say that everybody on the court has been wrong for 150 years and that that which has been deemed part of the bone...
After reading "The End" of Anne Frank [Feb. 17] and reminiscing on my own experiences in the camps of Auschwitz and Belsen, I don't think Germany will ever be able to wipe her hands clean...
Fire When Ready! In April 1897 T.R. was appointed by G.O.P. President William McKinley as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Spanish reinforcements were pouring across the Atlantic to wipe out freedom fighters in Cuba. More ominously, Germany and Japan were building fleets to challenge Pax Britannica and tilt the world balance of power. T.R. argued for war with Spain to kick the Spaniards % out of Cuba and to get the U.S. into world posture, a course also advocated by T.R.'s mentor and friend, Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, as the only...
...York Central's Board Chairman Robert R. Young won a belated victory last week. After a bitter, 2½-year battle between Young and Randolph Phillips, a former associate, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for one of Young's pet projects: a plan to wipe out $18 million in dividend arrears to preferred stockholders of Young's Alleghany Corp., which has working control of the Central with 973,500 shares of stock. Under the plan, each share of Alleghany's 5½% preferred stock would be exchanged for ten shares of new 6% preferred...
...this detail of mosquito behavior that the World Health Organization and other international bodies, plus 60 governments, are now basing a $500 million blitz campaign to wipe malaria off the world's disease map within ten years...