Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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M.I.T.'s prestigious Paul Samuelson is against a tax increase. So is New York's First National City Bank, which warned that it could have a "perverse" effect on the economy. Richard Nixon said last week that a tax hike might cause a recession that "would wipe out the gains of the past ten years." House Minority Leader Gerald Ford believes that it would be a "tragic mistake." Democratic Senators Vance Hartke of Indiana, George Smathers of Florida and William Proxmire. of Wisconsin all oppose it. The President's influential fellow Texan, Chairman Wright Patman...
They have the resources to wipe out poverty and raise their standard of living to unparalleled heights; but they do not seem to have the will-power. Their children, the young men and women coming of age in the sixties, have an opportunity to participate in remaking society, to serve in engineering major social and economic change; but they do not appear to have the desire and feeling of obligation...
...presence of massive allied forces may have forced Ho Chi Minh to change his whole objective. Marine commanders now believe the Reds plan to concentrate their attack on a single American unit, overwhelm it, and if possible, wipe it out. The strike would be launched just before next month's U.S. elections, in hopes of convincing American voters that the price of the war is too high to continue. Besides, the Communists are in desperate need of a military victory. They have not had one for more than a year...
...though many freshmen still show surprising strength, most political analysts expect Democrats to lose from 20 to 50 seats, Thus, there is a possibility that the Republicans will wipe out the 40-seat gain of 1964, although they are extremely unlikely to win the 77 seats they need to control the House...
...considerable force some time before summer's end, quite possibly at the narrow waist of South Viet Nam in the Central Highlands area. "They're going to have to make some attempt because they badly need a victory," explained a U.S. officer in Saigon. "They need to wipe out an American battalion. But they realize the size of the force it would take to do that, and every time they collect that many men they...