Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soldier in the Islands. Private Basilone was always laughing. One day his C.O. stopped in front of the ranks and said: "Wipe that smile off your face." But John Basilone could not turn down the corners of his mouth, and he spent a week...
...Roosevelt : "We are determined to disarm and disband all German armed forces; break up for all time the German General Staff ... remove all ... militarist influences." Political and economic disarmament would be equally complete and rigorous: "....Eliminate or control all German industry that could be used for military production . . . wipe out the Nazi party, Nazi laws, organizations and institutions. . . . It is not our purpose to destroy the people of Germany. But only when Naziism and militarism have been extirpated will there be hope for a decent life for Germans. . . ." Reparations. Germany must pay "to the greatest extent possible." A commission sitting...
...with three years of his third term still to run, has often told friends that he wants to leave office with a record of civic improvement behind him-instead of the gamy cerements of Democratic bossism. And Dwight Green. 48, just beginning Term II, wants two things: 1) to wipe out the do-nothing record of Term I and to make a real record of accomplishment in the next four years; 2) to break away from the dominance of the Chicago Tribune's isolationist Colonel Bertie McCormick...
...problems that has long faced the Brazilian Government is how to deal justly with hostile Indians. Much of the richest land in the great interior State of Matto Grosso is inhabited by aboriginal isolationists. The Government wants the land settled; the aborigines do not. The Brazilian Army could easily wipe them out, but the Government's policy of race equality precludes violent methods...
...Republican Opposition. "Carthage must be destroyed," cried the dour elder Cato in speech after speech in the Roman Senate. Perhaps it was inevitable that Rome should wipe out its great rival for control of the west Mediterranean basin. But once the Carthaginian menace had been removed, a certain vital tension disappeared from Rome's internal life. With no immediately compelling external problem, Romans started fighting each other...