Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bank crashes of the Depression, the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency declared insolvent the U.S. National Bank of San Diego (assets: $1.2 billion), which Smith has controlled for 40 years. The collapse-the biggest in U.S. banking history-will not affect the funds of depositors, but it threatens to wipe out the investments of several major holders of U.S. National stock. Smith is the largest of these, with 28% of the 2,000,000 shares...
...interspersed among the horses. Running alongside the presidential limousine were at least a dozen bodyguards, covering every inch of the car. As he took the oath before a crammed joint session of Congress, Perón was visibly moved. His hand shook, and he quickly sat down afterward to wipe away his tears with a handkerchief...
...canal, but maintained that the size of the Sinai Peninsula afforded the major cities of Israel sufficient security against Egyptian attack. Egyptian forces would be expelled from the Sinai, he insisted, as soon as Israeli reservists joined the battle. "It won't take months or weeks to wipe them out." As for the Syrians, said Dayan, their evident objective was to recapture the Golan Heights, which Israel seized during the Six-Day War, but, he added, "this they will...
...After an unsuccessful meeting to coordinate VVAW marshals with local police, Perdue was taken aside and told that assassination squads had been hired to "wipe out" VVAW coordinators. At the same time rumors were flying that the leaders would be ambushed, kidnapped and taken to Mexico...
...participated. Yet just one year after the Class of '72 bid Harvard farewell Pusey's successor--the man who presumably had inherited the job because of his reputation as a crisis handler, one he had earned as dean of the Law School during the '69 strike--threatened to wipe out the reforms of 1969 by encouraging the return of ROTC...