Word: wiped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great; he has long since proved that he considers one American life worth five of his own in the campaign to weary the U.S. of the war. That, too, characterized his war against the French, where at Dienbienphu he even budgeted 100% casualties?and took 8,000 dead to wipe out 2,000 of the camp's defenders...
...Vietnam remains a fresh one for humorists, the subject of nuclear war does not, and the Lampoon drags out all the old and hackneyed approaches. Predictably enough, world leaders gamble for control of the world. ANNIHILATION! is offered as a game in which "each player must attempt to wipe out as many as possible of the human beings inhabiting the country of his opponent," and even Jester, Ibis and The Blot find themselves trapped in "The World After Armageddon...
...earmarks of Giap's generalship: a combination of caution, feinting, meticulous preparation, and enormous concentrations of firepower and manpower. Giap's precise strategic aim at Khe Sanh is less clear. A North Vietnamese lieutenant who defected reported that Hanoi's goal was to wipe out U.S. forces in Viet Nam's northern provinces in order to provide a bargaining advantage in negotiations. But the U.S. command believes that Giap's aim is less ambitious, if more familiar: to surround the base camp at Khe Sanh and chew it to pieces, killing and capturing most...
...ophthalmologists doubted that even LSD could wipe out the eye-closing reflexes so completely. The attorney general found that "records" of the "cases" in Yoder's office were defective. Then it developed that Yoder, who has been 90% blind since child hood from a sand-lot baseball injury, had fabricated the story to drive home the dangers of LSD. Suspended from his post, "distraught and sick," Yoder had himself admitted to the Philadelphia Psychiatric Center...
Tobias emphasized that HSA was doing better than the figures showed, because much of the profit goes back to the students. He says HSA will probably be able to wipe out the deficit and have a surplus next year. Tobias said that any surplus would be used to start new businesses and maybe to buy a new building. HSA is expanding even without a surplus: the Information Gathering Service (IGS) moved into the third floor of the Putnam Furniture Company on Mass Ave this week...