Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago celebrated "Rat Extermination Week," hoped to wipe out 2,000,000 rats. Aldermen toured the city in sound trucks urging everybody to pitch...
...industrial suburbs. The nation's doctors and all health facilities would have to be ready for total mobilization within 24 hours. A major problem: preventing the disruption of health services by the first attack (as happened in Hiroshima). Atomic-age warfare, military and medical men agree, would wipe out all distinction between combatants and noncombatants: there would probably be more civilian than military casualties, and doctors would have to be assigned flexibly to both groups...
...base on balls or a woman or a colony. This thing has wide applications, which I want you to investigate. See what you can do for our mothers and wives, and for the little ones who may grow up to be even greater than our wonderful sluggers. Wipe the pitcher who passes off the field, send him to the showers, both hot and cold, bean him when he gets to bat, do anything, but don't let him give free bases on balls; it's undermining our culture and our very existence. And it was probably started by the * communists...
Growls & Whines. Pulverized rubber, burned off the tires by the rough brick track, soon painted a black film on drivers' faces. Some drivers carried powder-puffs, some chamois, to wipe smudged goggles. The cars bounced down the rough straightaway, giving off pungent exhaust fumes; the vibration was hard on drivers' wrists and backs. But the awareness that each turn might mean disaster kept them tense and alert. The basso profundo of a Mercedes growled sullenly out below the whine of Maser and Offenhauser engines as the pack circled the 2½-mile oval...
...even Paul Bunyan himself could not do without Johnny Inkslinger, the master figurer who kept a piece of rubber as big as a barrel on the end of his nose. With three shakes of his head, Johnny Inkslinger could wipe a page clean of figures. Last week Henry Kaiser tried the same vast trick...