Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face reality: we are living in an atomic age, and we have created an instrument that can destroy us all, the innocent along with the guilty. Every reputable scientist knows, and many have certainly stated, that a nuclear war would wipe out millions of human lives and would destroy our civilization...
...Russian to be totally belligerent in mood-and irrational in manner. Khrushchev, said McCloy, was "absolutely serious" about extracting what he called the "rotten tooth" of Berlin. To Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani, who called on him last week, Khrushchev warned of a nuclear war that would wipe out Italy and Britain (where the U.S. has missile bases) if the West attempted to preserve its access to Berlin by force. But he also announced blandly that war over Berlin was unlikely, noted that negotiations were "opportune and possible." In a turgid, 15-page answer to the July...
Some of Khrushchev's recent thunder took the form of an astonishing remark to Britain's ambassador in Moscow, Sir Frank Roberts: he boasted that he had all Western Europe at his mercy. Only six hydrogen bombs would be needed to wipe out Britain, said Khrushchev, and nine more would take care of France as well...
...National Press Club, Envoy Stevenson presented the plight of Latin America's single-product nations, vulnerable to commodity price wobbles, by emphasizing the situation of the 14 countries whose economies depend primarily on coffee. "The change in the price of coffee by half a cent per pound can wipe out all of the economic assistance that we could hope to give them for a long time," Stevenson said. Almost as he was talking, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Werner Blumenthal announced at a coffee meeting in Rio that the U.S. was "actively considering" direct participation in coffee-price propping...
...illiterates who have never heard of Marx, much less George Meany. I.C.F.T.U. makes a point that colonial officials cannot: that the time and money of union leaders in African lands are far better spent in free bargaining with employers to raise wages than in bitter anticapitalist, antiwhite efforts to wipe the employers out. The very presence in Africa of I.C.F.T.U.'s men as advocates of the employee underdog often strengthens the point that not all Westerners are ''colonialist imperialists...