Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Recently in Phu Bai a Navy doctor paused in the midst of treating a long line of village children to wipe his brow and expostulated: "Dammit, if we could just get these people to wash their kids off with soap and water, half of the cases we're treating here today wouldn't be sick." A marine corporal near by listened and nodded. Next day five marines, four washtubs and a bag of towels pulled into Phu Bai in a Jeep, and an assembly line was soon set up. One by one the village's toddlers were...
Labor has never flagged in its determination to wipe 14(b) off the books and thus demolish the remaining state right-to-work laws. Its main argument is that 14(b) undermines union security by allowing nonunion workers to get a "free ride," but that argument is weakening in a day when labor itself enjoys greater acceptance, wealth and influence than ever before. Opponents of repeal argue that labor is so powerful, in any case, that union security hardly hinges on getting rid of 14(b). Most important, they insist that compulsory unionism goes against the ingrained American idea...
...which gives it sovereign control "in perpetuity" over the canal and a five-mile strip along either side. The new treaty, explained the President, will "effectively recognize Panama's sovereignty over the area of the canal." In fact, when the treaty is signed, probably next year, it will wipe out the old concept of the Canal Zone as a U.S. bastion in Latin America...
...foil him. Calling for a gigantic convocation of his demonstration-happy followers in Salonika, canny old George Papandreou declaimed: "Governments and Parliaments must reflect the will of the people, and neither this government nor Parliament does that. But the people's will shall win, and the people will wipe this government out of existence." In downtown Athens, 10,000 left-wing union members rallied at a theater and demanded Papandreou's return or immediate elections...
...Walter Lippmann wipe out bugs? Possibly. After observing 1,500 tiny European Pyrrhocoris apterus bugs, Czechoslovakia's Dr. Karel Slama and Harvard's Dr. Carroll M. Williams report that a chemical substance in American newsprint prevented these insects from maturing into adults. Strangely, they grew into oversized larvae but could never reproduce...