Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Geologists shrugged at all the stir. Nature would wipe out the falls anyway in a scant 12,000 years...
...manipulated by writers-directors-producers Frank Launder and Sydney Gilliat (one of Mr. Rank's brighter young production teams), the rake's fast, downhill progress is topnotch fun with a pleasant British accent. The fun holds up, and so does the picture, until all the actors suddenly wipe the smiles off their faces at the end and admit that carefree living doesn't really...
...hundred men, women & children sweated away last week to convert an isolated Colorado canyon into an atomic foxhole. They hurried to finish roads, houses, power plant, workshop and administration building before atom bombs rained down to wipe out civilization. Dr. Doreal had said it would be "soon, probably sooner." When the radioactive dust had settled at last, they-the Brotherhood of the White Temple-would emerge from their hideout, help set civilization going again...
...graphite blocks inside the pile, aluminum cans of various chemicals were being exposed to neutrons, which transmuted some of their atoms into radioactive isotopes. To extract such a can, the pile must be shut down by remote control lest a beam of neutrons follow through the aperture and wipe out the operators...
...right to change or even destroy it. The Vollard heirs were ordered to return the 807 Rouaults to him in a month, or pay him 100,000 francs (now $840) apiece. The court ordered Rouault to pay the heirs a sum yet to be determined to wipe off Vollard's bill. Rouault expects to "finish up" only about 30 of the paintings. Among other things, Rouault has gone increasingly religious in his work, has little interest in his earlier daubery...