Word: wiped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...regarded as a darkhorse possibility for future Prime Minister. In Defense, Denis Healey has aimed his expertise at the tactical and technological aspects of the military. Roy Jenkins, after 16 years as a backbencher, was given the Aviation Ministry, where his most controversial task has been to wipe out the costly TSR 2 jet bomber. At first, Jenkins' ax was also aimed at the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic airliner. Wilson has since changed his mind about the Concorde, and Jenkins is engaged in exploring other Anglo-French aviation schemes as well. Wilson insists that the 20,000 workers thrown...
...Moscow scratching their heads, the standing committee of the National Assembly met in extraordinary session to replace Ho's hand-picked Foreign Minister Xuan Thuy with another pro-Peking stalwart named Nguyen Duy Trinh. The assumption: Thuy had urged negotiations with the U.S. before American bombs could wipe out North Viet Nam's industries...
...want to use violence, okay. Go to the rifle range and practice and then wipe out these cops in an even battle ... But if you're gonna be nonviolent and lie in the street you gotta accept the consequences. You can't lie in the street and then cry the blues when you get run over. [Boos greated this...
Your aggressive determination to wipe out the popular democratic government of the sovereign nation of Taiwan before it has a chance to exercise its legitimate right of annexing the mainland, compounded by your deceitful and transparent agreement with that Great Human tarian, the Generalissimo, that the mainland and the island are indeed one country, has proved you unworthy of sitting in that Great Hall of Truth, the Security Council of the UN, where the Great "Toughminded" Liberal Mr. Stevenson has to put up with the constant lies and distortions of your partner in crime, the Soviet Union, who has always...
...Gaulle, aided by Spain's Franco, is trying to form a new European axis designed to embarrass and weaken the U.S. by attacking the dollar. To buttress the dollar, Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. has been strongly urging President Johnson to move swiftly and dramatically to wipe out the deficit in the balance of payments. "Some way or other, something has to be done," Martin said recently. "It is important that we face up to the fact that we have become a chronic deficiteer-and that leaves us in a weak position...