Word: wipe
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...endemic in 30 countries and claimed an estimated 2.5 million victims. Now, in one of those major human victories that get too little no tice, Donald Henderson, the Cleveland-born doctor who heads the World Health Organization's campaign against smallpox, has announced that "we will wipe out the disease within three or four months." No cases have been detected in Asia in two months; the world's last known pocket of smallpox is in a remote area of Ethiopia, and there too it will soon be stamped out. The victory was won by massive vaccinations, which...
...second floor by the building manager and a police officer about 90 seconds after the shooting. Warren Commission investigators retraced the same route from the sixth floor and reached the second floor, without running, in the allotted time. Oswald did not have to struggle through the cartons, meticulously wipe prints off the gun and carefully hide it; he apparently simply pushed a box or two aside, dropped the gun, and walked down four flights of stairs...
With thousands of construction men already out of work, the government estimates that the new wage increases will wipe out many of the remaining private building firms...
Died. Hugh Auchincloss Brown, 96, engineer who believed that vast polar icecaps would wipe out civilization in this century; in New York City. Brown, author of Cataclysms of the Earth (1967), predicted that the accumulation of ice at the Antarctic would upset the planet's equilibrium and cause it to flip, reversing the North and South Poles. If the catastrophe comes to pass, New York, according to Brown, will be buried under 13 miles of water...
...Board of Economists, says that if New York goes under, the shock waves in money markets will drive up borrowing costs for many states and municipalities, forcing them to cut services and spending and hike taxes, and drastically harm the economy. A New York bankruptcy would also wipe out much of the value of $2 billion worth of city securities held by banks round the country. Though the Federal Reserve has pledged to lend the banks enough money to keep them from closing, they might have to curtail their lending to business. Much of the remaining $11.5 billion in city...