Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solid, efficient Prime Minister of his native Western Region and headed Nigeria's opposition party, the Action Group. Before independence in 1960, he was influential in drawing up Nigeria's constitution. Would Awolowo, a masterful organizer, really get mixed up in a half-baked, amateurish plot to wipe out his nation's top leadership with a handful of explosives, arms, and rebels trained in nearby Ghana...
...might reverse the House action. A $150 million cutback could mean abandoning plans next year to build 10,000 classrooms and low-cost housing for some 175,000 people; it would cancel low-interest loans to 10,000 farmers for plows, seed and fertilizer to escape subsistence-level farming, wipe out a plan for loans to 6,000 small businessmen to stimulate grass-roots private enterprise, and force withdrawal of U.S. support for 60 mobile medical units which provide treatment for 2,000,000 people in 600 Central American villages. And finally, it would prevent the U.S. Food for Peace...
...Mitford (whose attorney husband, Robert Treuhaft, helped organize one in San Francisco) provide a list of such societies; there are 90 in the U.S., with a membership of 35,000. The undertaking business tends to dismiss them as aggregations of "do-gooders and left-wingers," who are trying to wipe out beauty, sentiment and religion...
Hungary's new look is largely the result of efforts by Premier Janos Kadar to wipe out the stain of having personally called in Russian troops and tanks to suppress the 1956 revolution. Having found that a lighter yoke yields greater economic prosperity and less political unrest, Kadar has made Hungary - next to Poland - the most liberal of the satellite regimes. That, of course, is still very much a relative matter, but Hungarians are grateful for small favors. "Times can never be the same again," says...
...sixth Station, the voice of Veronica offers "to wipe the sweat of those who carry the Cross." The band plays I Believe as a whole gallery of unfortunates rushes forth to beg compassion, among them a convict, an unwed mother ("Wipe my face, me who carries in my belly a son who has no father"), an unemployed worker and a prostitute ("Why won't humanity...