Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jimmy! Stay away from him! Wipe dat smile offen his face...
...clearly interstate, there is only one course of action open to the country if it desires to make the social program of the New Deal a permanent part of American government. It must tackle this ticklish job of amending the Constitution, so that Congress will have the power to wipe out the more glaring abuses in American industry by establishing minimum wages and maximum hours to be observed throughout the country. Such a step will inevitably be distasteful to a people who like to regard their constitution as able to cope with any situation, but it must be done...
...clouds mounted to the upper edge of the sun, a fan of golden cables swung down over them into the far hills that rolled about this New Hampshire valley like the broken rim of a cup. The Vagabond, brushing wearily through the weeds of the fiat fields paused to wipe the perspiration from his warm face. His shabby clothes, his eyes rather puffed and watery, betokened the dusty plodding of a long journey. And indeed he had been trudging since dawn when he left Dunster sitting beside the river, it seemed, like a contented crimson...
...Tsarist Russia, the Soviet Navy today is junk. This junk, Bolsheviks have thought, was good enough because no power with a first-class navy in the West was temperamentally the sort of power that would attack them unprovoked, while in the East they relied on their bombing planes to wipe out Tokyo should Japan hurl her navy against Vladivostok...
...fought and bled for every inch of it, and not "through the benevolence of the Great Powers." You must be naive indeed to assign such idealism to these powers, who, for their gain, have created in Greece such internal antagonisms and hatreds that it will take many generations to wipe out. It is now history how during the War they financed Venizelos to set up a rebel government in Saloniki by promising that great diplomat territories which they had already assigned by secret treaty to Russia. After the War, in the Greek Asia Minor Expedition, France showed again her "benevolence...