Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Impressed by a classic miscalculation of U.S. intelligence, both Ike and Bradley feared that German armies would form a "National Redoubt" in the all-but-impenetrable Alpine massif, and hoped to wipe out resistance in the area before the stronghold could be manned. "Not until after the campaign ended," Bradley wrote later, "were we to learn that this Redoubt existed largely in the imaginations of a few fanatic Nazis...
...herself, Natalie can hardly wait. She fervently hopes that Splendor will at last wipe out the image of the child star that still lingers on among TV viewers of her old movies, which are still running on the late, late shows. Says she: "Those things haunt me. People are always bugging me by saying 'My, how you have grown!' You'd think they expected me to stay seven years old." But her anxiety is needless. As any studio executive or reader of the gossip columns could have told them, Nat is a big girl in Hollywood...
When famed Harvard Nobel Laureate John Franklin Enders announced at a Manhattan meeting three years ago that he had isolated measles virus, his fellow virologists stood up and cheered. It would not be long, they hoped, before a vaccine could be developed to wipe out a disease that sends one child in 4,000 to institutions for the feebleminded. But the first live virus vaccine developed by Enders left much to be desired; four of five children got severe fevers, roughly half developed a rash. Last week, after much toil by Enders and others, a group of Pennsylvania physicians...
...thousands of women who spend millions of dollars each year hopefully trying to regain the facial appearance of their more youthful days." For $1,000 they could have a two-week stay at the Budkon Center in Westport, Conn., where a mild burning with buffered carbolic acid would wipe away sagging skin, wrinkles, freckles, acne scars, and the troubled look of middle age-all under the supervision of a former professor of dermatology...
...million tons of TNT), made to fit rockets "similar to those used by Major Y. A. Gagarin and Major G. S. Titov for their unrivaled cosmic flights." In case somebody missed the point, Russia's army newspaper Red Star explained that nuclear weapons of such power could wipe out anyone anywhere: "No super-deep shelter can save them from an all-shattering blow from this weapon...