Word: wipe
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...that two prophets came after Muhammad. To Muslims this constitutes a new, perverted faith. The first prophet was Mirza 'Ali Muhammad, who declared in 1844 that he was the Bab (gate), the pathway to God. He was executed in 1850 as a heretic. When Persian authorities tried to wipe out his disciples, the Babis fought back; as many as 20,000 were slain...
...racing circuits looking for potential stars. Austrian manufacturers provide free gear to nearly 600 promising youths, some under the age of ten. Comments Christl Haas, a gold-medal winner in the 1964 Innsbruck Games: "These toddlers all have at least three pairs of skis and a company representative to wipe their noses...
Stung by the reception given to Weinberger by some 600 students last November, Epps has redoubled his efforts to wipe out student protest. He has threatened the two of us with expulsion. On 16 January we were called in for a chat with Elliot Cohen, our senior tutor at Quincy House. While Mr. Cohen blathered about Harvard's "liberal principles" which he felt were blown to smithereens by the Weinberger protest, we thought about the 50,000 Salvadorans who were blown to smithereens by Caspar Weinberger '38, the victims of "liberal principles." Mr. Cohen's soliloquy was cut short...
...Israeli and French retaliatory air strikes last week may have destroyed the headquarters of the Shi'ite Muslim militia called Islamic Amal, but the attacks could not hope to wipe out the group's suicidal zeal. For the followers of Shi'ite extremists, especially supporters of Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, dying in a jihad, or "holy war," means martyrdom and a guaranteed place in heaven. With the recent suicide bombings of the U.S., French and Israeli headquarters in Lebanon, radical Shi'ite groups have become a small but potentially destabilizing force in Lebanon. Says...
...astonishing document: a call for socialism to wipe out the inequalities of capitalism and class, coupled with a stinging indictment of contemporary Socialists: "One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw toward them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist and feminist in England." Orwell not only sensed the distaste that unemployed miners would feel for such studied eccentricities, he shared the feeling. He also perceived something that was to reverberate in political writings for half a century: ascendant...