Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson's brand of political maneuvering, which plays on the emotions and ignorance of the masses, is positively revolting. It should be obvious to everyone that his lavish promises to wipe out poverty and end racial strife are merely vote-getting tactics...
Times and four Negro clergymen in Alabama. But it did far more than wipe out the award. It defused a welter of libel cases brought by public officials in the South against assorted critics, including nine other cases against the Times. And by holding that Alabama's libel laws are unconstitutionally broad, the court cast doubt on similar state libel laws all over...
Offered a rare opportunity to wipe out the Communist Viet Cong's crack 514th Battalion, some 2,000 U.S.-supported government troops last week trapped 500 of the enemy in a swamp ringed with coconut and banana groves, moved in for the kill. But a single Viet Cong platoon managed to hold off a timid government battalion for five hours. Other government troops failed to contact the enemy before dark. Instead of slipping away in the night as usual, the Viet Cong blasted right through the government lines and escaped, killing 22 government soldiers, wounding...
...only for the island's security and return to normal, but also for facing certain other unpleasant situations." Guesses as to what these last might be ranged from repelling an invasion by Turkey to attacking the 7,000-man British garrison to trying to wipe out some of the isolated Turkish Cypriot positions, such as the schoolhouse in Polis where 700 men, women and children are surrounded by Greek Cypriot partisans. A British diplomat said, "Frankly, we don't know what's behind it," but added with feeling that anything that made Greek Cypriot irregulars into...
...week, 25,000 rank-and-file Republicans paid $100 each to eat mediocre meals in various halls and hotels while G.O.P. officials, candidates and would-be candidates orated to them over closed-circuit television. Billed as "Go-Day Rallies," the round-robin affairs rallied more than enough money to wipe out the Republican National Committee's $225,000 deficit left over from past campaigns, and gave party workers a chance to watch their standard-bearers at work...