Word: wiped
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...Object. It is to wipe out enemy troops. The game is over when one side is wiped out or surrenders. A tie at the end of the game is a moral victory for the South. You maneuver your forces--as single units or armies composed of groups of units--to wipe out your enemy. You wipe out enemy troops in two ways...
Preacher & Teacher. Archbishop Ramsey also disagrees with Archbishop Fisher on the desirability of making adultery a criminal offense, and demurs from Dr. Fisher's opinion that God may well want the human race to wipe itself out. "I am not a pacifist," he told students at Oxford last year, "but it is difficult to see today how there could be a just war. If the choice came between blowing up the world and being overrun by Communism, I still don't think we have the right to blow up the world...
...Lieut. Colonel Vuang Van Dong, 30, who declared himself "chef de coup d'état," explained what the fighting was all about: "We want to end politics in the army." The rebels' complaint was that Diem's interference was hamstringing the army's efforts to wipe out Communist terrorism. Chimed in a paratroop captain: "All Diem has done in six years in office is indulge in nepotism. He has generals who don't even command a company. He lives in an ivory tower surrounded by his family, so we must depose him. If we allowed...
Raincoats Are Enough. Biggest market is Africa, where only a fraction of the population can afford new clothes, and where self-conscious new nations like Ghana are anxious to wipe out traditional tribal nudity. Ghana last year doubled its purchase of used clothes, spent some $1,680,000 on broni waawu, mostly from the U.S., and the All-Africa Women's League, the most militant no-nakedness national organization, distributed several thousand garments free. Morocco last year imported $1,000,000 in secondhand garments. In East Africa, the political and missionary propaganda on the importance of wearing clothes...
Letter from Ike. All this did not go down well with those who recalled that sympathetic creditors, mostly U.S., for-gave over $1 billion in German prewar debts at the 1952 London Debt Conference, and that the U.S. Government agreed to wipe $2.2 billion in postwar aid debts off the books to help the Germans along. And though West Germany's defense depends largely on keeping U.S. and British troops stationed on its territory, the Germans have doggedly insisted on trimming their share of the costs of maintaining and supporting them. In 1958, German troop-support payments to Britain were...