Word: wiped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eisenhower had to have a heart attack to throw the country into a recession, but Kennedy just has to open his mouth to wipe out $70 billion in values of stocks in two months...
...both Africa and Middle America, WHO doctors are trying to wipe out tiny gnats that leave the victims of their bites infested with worms that attack the eyes, causing "river blindness." In some villages, all adults are blind. The doctors are using drugs to kill the worms, and insecticides in the rivers (where the flies' eggs hatch) to break the blindness cycle...
...well as with guns. In Malaya, the Communist guerrillas had no contiguous border with a Red country and. being mostly Chinese, they were distinct from the Malays, who disliked them on principle. Even so, it took twelve years and 350,000 soldiers, police, and militia for Malaya to wipe out 12,000 isolated Communist guerrillas...
...population of Gibraltar be preserved, in deference to the legend that when the last ape leaves the rock, the British will, too. The monkey tricks that roll out of Gallico's typewriter are frantic but predictable. The crisis, brought on by fifth columnists who try to wipe out the ape population, is passed when Scruffy is induced to marry cross-eyed Amelia, after a long-distance betrothal complete with a touched-up portrait, a la Anne of Cleves. It was funnier the first time it happened...
...given moment you're only the sum of your life up to then... That big hour of decision, the turning point in your life, the someday you've counted on when you'd suddenly wipe out your past mistakes, do the work you'd never done, think the way you'd never thought, have what you'd never had--it just doesn't come suddenly...