Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wartime broadcasts to Japan), who likes to make people's flesh creep, last week did it again. He reminded the U.S. that its top military men were anything but complacent over "absolute weapons."* In the United Nations World, Zacharias wrote of new non-atomic weapons "that could wipe out the last vestige of human, animal and vegetable life." And then he added: "They are not an American monopoly. Several nations are known to have them, to be making them, and to be improving them. Furthermore, unlike the atom bomb, they are of such a nature that smaller nations with...
When a bystander yelled, "Hey, the guy's married," Queen Laura playfully pretended to wipe off a smudge of lipstick. Then she kissed him again, and a thoroughly confused Star Farmer was taken on a slow circuit of the arena as thousands roared...
...natural leader of western Europe, now becomes the prospective leader of a Fascist bloc-the France government in Spain, Qualunquists in Italy, Belgian Fascists, Mosleyites in England, and the remnants of Nazism in Germany. The unification of such neo-fascist elements under the leadership of France would wipe out what hope of East- West peace remains in the world. America would be entitled to the dubious privilege o starting in where Hitler left...
...wars. And he tolerated and refused to interfere with the machinations of thugs like Willy Bioff, George Browne, George Scalise, James Bove, et al. Nine months before Scalise, the gangster king of the Building Service Union, was convicted of stealing members' dues, Green blandly asked Franklin Roosevelt to wipe out an earlier conviction for white-slaving so Scalise could apply for citizenship...
Footpads, pickpockets and housebreakers, with all the riffraff who lived by their wits, filled the underworld of London's alleys and gin shops with an argot of which traces still survive. "Frisking" meant searching, then as now. A watch was a "tick," a handkerchief was a "wipe," and "wipe priggers" (pickpockets) flourished among theater standees. A glass of gin was a "flash of lightning',, and too many flashes often lit the way to "Tuck 'em Fair" (the place of execution...