Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stock companies, representing 80% of the fire insurance written in the U.S.). It charges that S.E.U.A. members: 1) fix standard, noncompetitive rates and contracts; 2) ban from reinsurance pools any companies that do not meet their "standards" -a severe penalty in fire insurance, where a large fire can wipe out a single company; 3) boycott nonconforming agents...
...water-distilling plant, ammunition dumps were destroyed. Yet toward the end of the second day Jap small-caliber guns put up ack-ack fire. Some of the younger U.S. pilots were puzzled. But old hands and the high command knew that only direct hits by aerial bombs could wipe out the burrowed Japs. A naval officer estimated that 85% to 90% of the enemy garrison were still alive. Unless the Jap evacuated, marines or infantry would still have to fight for Wake...
Well, having been flushed to the surface, I might as well sing, spill the goods, come clean. Here's the full inside story, and the SERVICE NEWS is beating Pegler, Clapper, and Drew Pearson to it: Yale men have secretly banded together in order to wipe out for once and for all the Crimson Menace. Operating strictly under order from the Blue Square in New Haven, I revealed the intolerable conditions in the Ha'v'd Ya'd and got a DSC and a shiny new yo-yo from the PBY committee (Pour le Bettrement de Yale), Fifth Column Division...
...barred them from the scheduled first Honolulu performance of This Is the Army, closed recreation centers, confined sailors in Waikiki's Royal Hawaiian Hotel (now a Navy rest center) to the hotel grounds. A Negro chemical-warfare company moved into Waikiki with thousands of gallons of insecticide to wipe out mosquito-breeding places. But by week's end the epidemic had spread to seven Honolulu districts. Officers feared they might have to declare the whole city out of bounds for the armed forces...
...medicine, and was so rotten you had to step carefully not to break through. . . . The walls were covered with large red splashes of the saliva of betel-nut chewers. All the window ledges were covered with nasal secreta which the patients blow on their fingers and then carefully wipe off on the nearest projection. . . . That night Marion and I broke down and sobbed in each other's arms...