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According to the New York Times, Saud had said, "We ought to be able to man 10,000,000 to wipe out Israel, and if 5,000,000 are sacrificed, it is worthwhile...
...paper garlands. Then the P.W.s patted the children goodbye, cast farewell glances at the girls in the swirling skirts, and moved off toward the waiting LSTs. Starting next morning, the 14,000 sailed for a new life on Formosa. They seemed determined to return to the mainland and wipe out Mao Tse-tung. "With one heart," said one 24-year-old, "we return to Formosa. With one life, we shall eliminate the Communists...
Section 3 would wipe out this balance by giving the legislature an exclusive, if residual, authority. Congress has been no less prone to abuse authority than the President, no less in need of the restraints inherent in a checks and balance system. Once Bricker had his way, the hundreds of agreements which diplomacy requires daily would become so many levers by which Congressmen could pry out of the executive satisfaction for their peeves and private theories...
...like a swimmer's over the surging sea of humanity while official loudspeakers blared: "Please, please, we don't want to mangle the new President." At last Magsaysay was lifted to the shoulders of some of his constituents while others tried to reach up and wipe the sweat from his streaming brow. When he reached his car, one sleeve of his sport shirt had been torn off. His pants were saved only by the safety pins with which he had foresightedly fastened them to his undershirt...
...burnished wrack burns in yon western sky," she tells herself as she watches a sunset. But Cress never writes this sort of thing in her notebooks ("The Poems of Crescent Delahanty, Volume III"); there she strives for something starker and more modern, e.g., "You do not have to wipe the noses of your dreams...