Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moppets also contribute hundreds of little rhymes that fit Editor Botkin's definition of folklore: "The stuff that travels and the stuff that sticks." Samples : Eight and eight are sixteen, Stick your nose in kerosene, Wipe it off with ice cream...
...Allies chosen to strike now in Italy? To capture Rome? To wipe out the Cassino disgrace? It was much more than that. Said General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander in his order of the day: "We are going to destroy the German armies in Italy." There were undoubtedly other factors which General Alexander did not mention...
...Maquis, about 600 strong, were entrenched on the Plateau des Glières, a tableland in southeastern France near the Swiss border. To wipe them out, the Germans massed an estimated 12,000 men, much artillery, squadrons of planes, planned to open with an artillery barrage. The French fooled them...
Change of Spirit? The Raj made one request of Gandhi: to keep political silence. The old man's intimates prayed that he would regain strength for one more grand effort. They spoke hopefully of a meeting between him and the Viceroy, a meeting that might wipe the slate clean, win at long last the cooperation of India's nationalists in the Empire's war. Said Devadas Gandhi's Hindusthan Times: "... Though the communique says the decision was taken on purely medical grounds, we permit ourselves the hope that this marks a change of spirit which...
...with him. Eyewitness accounts relayed back to his home in Geneva tell how Captain Little led his platoon of amphibious tractors onto the beach in the first assault wave. All men in his tractor were killed except him before the landing was made. Singlehanded, Little pushed on to wipe out a Japanese machine-gun position before he was fatally wounded...