Word: wiped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such a victory was certainly not possible in Algeria, where 500,000 French soldiers have spent more than six years fruitlessly chasing handfuls of F.L.N. guerrillas over mountains and through deserts. To many observers, it seemed clear Challe planned to launch an invasion of Tunisia and wipe out the so-far-untouched F.L.N. bases where an estimated 20,000 rebels rest, train and refit for battle inside Algeria. In short, Challe saw himself doing the dirty work for De Gaulle and then handing over to him a fait accompli that De Gaulle could not easily refuse...
...generals took over in South Korea last week, proclaiming their desire to wipe out corruption, inefficiency and Communism. The U.S., which had trained the crack Korean army and hand-picked its leaders, was surprised by the coup and bewildered in its response...
...what risk all this? Well, admits Ramo: "Occasionally, a transistor burning out in Kansas City may accidentally wipe out the fortune of someone in Philadelphia...
...into law is debatable. Washington's labor lobbies, already warming up for House Ways & Means Committee hearings on the message next month, claim that the investment incentive will only encourage corporations to create greater unemployment by building automated plants. Business groups complain that some of the new taxes wipe out the very funds earmarked for plant investment. "By the time he's through," complained one industry spokesman, "he's given an incentive of $1.7 billion, and taken that and more out of the savings stream. And how that is a way to develop incentive...
...increasing pressure from Comrade Gomulka's party activists. Last year, factories suddenly stopped or slowed down deliveries of materials for church buildings, and the army started drafting seminary students a few at a time. Two religious holidays were declared to be official workdays. Then the party threatened to wipe out religious education in the schools, which Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski had won from Gomulka after months of struggle four years...