Word: wiped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Duke, who charged his colleagues with a lack of "integrity, guts, common sense and dignity." In contrast, English Professor M. H. Abrams supported the reverse vote as the only rational course. "To stand on legality, to temporize, would be disastrous," he said. "The only thing to do is wipe the slate clean." Historian Rossiter attributed his own change of heart in part to Perkins' appeals. "There was pressure," he explained, sounding slightly brainwashed. "But it was the only thing we could do to preserve this university as a place of reason. I can live with ferment but not with...
...used the equipment like dilettantes. The outgunned, outmanned Biafrans have retreated to advantageously familiar home ground, and receive French arms by air. On their northeastern front, the Nigerians are largely in control. In the southeast, the Biafrans have 3,000 Nigerian soldiers encircled at Owerri but lack strength to wipe out the pocket and push south toward the oil town of Port Harcourt. Last week, in an offensive obviously timed for Wilson's visit, Nigerians launched a general attack in the north that carried them closer to Biafra's lone airstrip at Uli. Unless it is totally successful...
...great honor for us to have President Nixon in the headquarters of both the EEC and NATO [Feb. 28]. His aim is to wipe out egoistic nationalism, unstable coexistence and indifferent neutrality in order to build up a renewed Atlantic alliance: a united people with a united purpose. This is the only guarantee against the Russian nightmare...
Such rare setbacks do not slow Benelli's frenetic pace. Somehow he even finds time to promote a favorite cause: helping to wipe out illiteracy in underdeveloped nations by upgrading the educational programs of Catholic missions. Last week he flew off to the Ivory Coast to dedicate a new seminary in Abidjan. The trip was expected to take him to other African countries on still another act of service for Paul VI: exploring a possible papal visit to that continent later this year...
WBAI-FM, New York City's radical, listener-sponsored radio station, has 20,000 subscribers. In the last two months, however, it often seems as though the rest of New York's 18 million inhabitants would like to wipe it off the airwaves. Never too comfortable with the right wing, nobody was much surprised when several years ago WBAI was accused of "subversion" by the Senate equivalent of HUAC; those who knew were more likely to be flattered. But almost all of the station's latest attackers would be proud to call themselves "liberals," and would even more proudly defend...