Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the comic-opera façade, however, Tubman made some substantial contributions to Africa's oldest independent black state. His rule was characterized by both stability and a medicum of physical progress. By means of education and arm-twisting, Tubman did all he could to wipe out the differences between native tribesmen and the elitist Americo-Liberians (descendants of Liberia's freed-slave founders...
Beware Impetuosity. It was a fantastic undertaking. One measure of how far Mao is from success is the state of the 17 million-member Chinese Communist Party, which marked its 50th anniversary last week. Mao demolished the party during the Cultural Revolution in his effort to wipe out the "capitalist readers" and others who did not share his own mystical concept of the revolution. He hoped to replace them with freshly radicalized, totally Maoized youth who would be prepared to spend their lives in permanent struggle. But they have yet to appear...
...winds. The winds, it must be conceded, have been generally favorable. Despite such Mao-inspired aberrations as the Great Leap Forward of 1958-59 and the Cultural Revolution, the country is now relatively stable. Jobs are available, the yen is firm, and the kind of famines that used to wipe out 20 million people at a time are a fading memory...
...nearly 20 years this mark [the former one] had withstood the efforts of the world's best. Many youths with sinews of steel have sought to wipe it off the book and write their names in sport's Hall of Fame with one gigantic effort, but, while some have approached it, none ever bettered it until here this afternoon when the Crimson trimmed husky fairly catapulted himself up and beyond the dust-covered figures two decades old. Incidentally, he won the 100-yard dash also...
...schedule of tennis, golf, and after-dinner dancing squarely into the hopper. At first, he only groaned; his hands anchored to the enamel circle, he prayed for his heart to fall back into first without tearing out the transmission. And then he began with methodic attention to wipe from his face the vomit and sweat...