Word: wiped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter was as barren of endearments as the salutation. Shigeru Yoshida's Government, it said, had better take prompt steps to tighten Japan's economy and wipe out its black markets, or it could expect no help from the Allies...
...factories underground, conceal its command centers, stockpile materials and equipment against the day when no more can be produced. The process will not protect the people, but it may allow the nation to preserve some of its strength while under atomic attack, and scrape together enough bombs to wipe out its enemy...
...back bench, Knowland waited respectfully until Taft had finished. Then he rose and very firmly pointed out that at the rate of $1 billion a year it would take 259 years to wipe out the debt.* He thought the Senators ought to do it faster than that. He was calm: before the session, he had taken the precaution of lining up maverick Republicans on his side. He also knew Democrats would be with him, if only to embarrass Taft. A trifle grimly, Colorado's Eugene Millikin suggested a $2 billion tax payment as a compromise. Taft retreated...
...Solemn Thought: "I have seen in many provinces how you Chinese Communists have the only perfect defense in the world against the atomic bomb. You have a government that can live so dispersed among the people that even the entire stockpile of bombs in America couldn't wipe your government...
...lions' den was not quiet enough, however, to put Daniel to sleep. Church leaders, asking the industry and labor men to think of their problems "from God's viewpoint," were occasionally disturbed by such cries from the floor as "Wipe out the evil of monopolistic capitalism!" The Council's new President Charles P. Taft, bossing his first meeting, had to be firm to keep delegates on the subject...