Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this counterblast was not moral victory enough for Il Duce. Simultaneously the council of directors decided to wipe out the effects of the Pope's message by 1) establishing a separate Party bureau for Balilla propaganda, granting it $50,000 from the Party coffers forthwith; 2) mobilizing the entire party (873,000 adults and 642,000 youths) on the Piave battlefields as a demonstration that Fascism is a military force not to be underestimated...
...Nicholas I of Russia, in 1849. As the elder Szalay had been a rebel, had served after his capture only to evade imprisonment, that diploma remained his "shame." To his sons he used to say, pointing to the document, "You must do something good for the Hungarian people to wipe out my disgrace...
...lemme loose, I'll knock you agin,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, en wid dat he fotch 'er a wipe wid de udder han, en dat stuck. Tar-Baby, she ain't sayin' nothin', en Brer...
...members and members of patriotic organizations, each recipient promising to pay an old debt or buy merchandise with his checks within 24 hours. As the checks cannot be banked until after June 30, each one will theoretically change hands 30 times, do $150 worth of business. Tarrytown hopes to wipe $60,000 in old accounts off its books by the end of the month...
...carry through "the biggest job in the world . . . of making a successful home" and to flay those who "pandering to the weaknesses of human nature for thirty pieces of silver . . . unfortunately find ways to gratify their passions without the responsibilities of marriage and who, like the harlot of old, wipe their mouths, and say I have not sinned...