Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...something to organize a strike about. The man chairing the discussion is standing on a small wooden table and I am very concerned lest he break it. We collect water in wastebaskets in case of tear gas. Some of it gets spilled and I spend my time trying to wipe it up. I don't want to leave somebody else's office all messy...
...attracted Degas. As Mrs. Janis, who put the current exhibition together, has pointed out, Degas devoted so much time to the monotype in order to free himself as much as he desired from the classical constraints of his innate sense of line. With a rag he was able to wipe away ink and compose in broad spaces. Privately modeling in this medium, as in the sculpture, Degas was able to counterbalance his draughtsmanship and realize form and volume. Publicly, the result was the marvelously transitory, captured, psychological quality of his work. This sense of spontaneity made him among the first...
...business engage in extra-curricular activities, spend more time on social life, and are less grade-oriented than the academically-oriented students, who tend to be less suited to business careers anyway. This may well be the case in many circumstances, but it is too easy an explanation to wipe out the basic statistical trend...
...problem is essentially political: to be really effective a country must decide to channel a very large proportion of its national resources into education. Even then, policy-makers are faced with an almost impossible choice. On the one hand, programs could concentrate on educating the young and attempt to wipe out the problem in one generation. On the other hand, most of the underdeveloped nations do not feel they can afford to wait a generation...
...small ceremony in Paris, UNESCO awarded its annual prize for combatting illiteracy to a young Tanzanian girl from the Tabora Girls School. At the initiative of the Headmistress, a Swede, the pupils had undertaken to teach illiterates in the area. It is as unlikely that present programs will wipe out illiteracy in the rest of the world, as that these girls will alphabetize Tanzania. The projects are driving home the twin lesson of the failures of the last 15 years--the magnitude of the problems and the magnitude of the resources that will have to be devoted to their solution...