Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state be lowered, but it did nothing to make up for the loss in local revenues. As a result, Detroit schools began running a deficit in 1966. The city's voters grudgingly agreed to raise school taxes by $25 million in 1969, but that was not enough to wipe out the red ink entirely, even though the city's property taxes rose higher than those of most of its suburbs. School officials asked for another tax increase last May 16, but Detroiters voted solidly against it. They are likely to do so again when the proposed tax boost...
...their evangelistic.fervor. In an attempt to echo that fervor, the long-established American Board of Missions to the Jews has run full-page newspaper ads crowing about the number of Jews "wearing 'that smile' nowadays!" Last week New York Rabbi William Berkowitz took his own ad headed "Wipe That Smile Off," saying that there is such vast spiritual poverty among both Jews and Christians that each group should concentrate on missions to its own people...
...surplus of a relatively small $5 billion. Even that calculation assumes that the Government will start not a single new major spending program for the next four years. All by itself, however, the proposed 20% increase in Social Security benefits now being talked up in Congress could more than wipe out any potential surplus...
...Countries that pile up big international-payments surpluses should be compelled to reduce them; in addition, debtor countries like the U.S. should be forced to wipe out big deficits...
Miller's answer is as strong as it is stark; the currency of conscience has only one backing-a man's lifeblood. Miller astutely recognizes that the purpose of tyranny is not to scourge the guilty but to crush the free. A tyranny must wipe out its most dangerous enemy-one man who will not save his life by confessing to a lie. Building to a powerful crescendo, The Crucible makes its hero (Robert Foxworth) face just that terrible choice. It is so easy to confess and not have to leave his wife (Martha Henry) a widow...