Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wipe out' is slang for 'kill...
...father of Martin Luther King, a Baptist minister himself who had come out for Nixon a few weeks earlier...now switched. "Because this man," said the Reverend Mr. King Senior, "was willing to wipe the tears from my daughter (in-law's) eyes. I've got a suitcase of votes, and I'm going to take them to Mr. Kennedy and dump them in his lap."... When one reflects that Illinois was carried by only 9,000 votes and that 250,000 Negroes voted for Kennedy, that South Carolina was carried by 10,000 votes and that an estimated...
...psychologists' aim was to wipe out that difference. Choosing 40 retarded mothers with newborn babies, all black, they assigned them randomly to two groups with 20 mothers and infants in each. For the control group, nothing special was done. In the experimental group, the mothers were given job training and taught homemaking and baby care. Their babies, beginning at three months of age, were picked up every morning and taken to the university. There, "infant stimulation teachers" fed, bathed and taught them until...
...breakaway of Pakistan's eastern wing became a virtual certainty when the Islamabad government launched air strikes against at least eight Indian airfields two weeks ago. Responding in force, the Indian air force managed to wipe out the Pakistani air force in the East within two days, giving India control of the skies. In the Bay of Bengal and the Ganges delta region as well, the Indian navy was in unchallenged command. Its blockade of Chittagong and Chalna harbors cut off all reinforcements, supplies and chances of evacuation for the Pakistani forces, who found themselves far outnumbered...
...late freeze did bring some gains against inflation; the consumer price index rose a mere .1% in October, its smallest increase since early 1967. But prices will shoot up again if wage contracts continue to call for annual increases of 10% and more, and the price boosts will quickly wipe out pay gains. So far, though, union leaders have refused to apply the brakes to their side of inflation's runaway vehicle. To help set the proper example, Meany engineered convention approval of a 28% increase (to $90,000 annually) in his own salary -five times as high...