Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pacelli did not neglect Vatican City. About the time that Pius XI appointed Pacelli Prefect of the Reverend Fabric of St. Peter's (guardian of Vatican buildings), Mussolini banned the Catholic Boy Scouts and started to wipe out Catholic Action in Italy. The Pope wrote an encyclical (Non abbiamo bisogno) attacking the Fascist action, but since the Fascists controlled all the telegraph lines and cables to the outside world, Mussolini was in a position to read and reply to the encyclical before the world read...
With such a ticket in the field we would sweep the country, wipe out every trace of New Dealism, return to normalcy and establish an administration which, while nothing to be exactly proud of, would certainly bring about a surprising degree of harmony. . . . Here's a ticket we zoo-percenters can stand on in the brave new world ahead...
Undoubtedly, the big news of the week was the baseball game between the ASOTS and the Faculty. Enthusiasm, of course, had flared for the game, for not only had the challenge come from the professor but one scholar was even heard to remark, "After we wipe up the diamond with those boys, they'll wish that they ahd been sent to Guadalcanal instead of Harvard...
...January 1846 universal peace seemed assured at last: Biela's comet was about to wipe out the world. But, as comet and Earth rushed toward the fatal conjunction, a watcher in the U.S. Naval Observatory saw the "ominous and inconceivable" happen-Biela's comet split in two. This lucky break permitted history to crowd into the balance of that amazing year a series .of events (of which the Mexican War and the westward migration are best known) that cause Historian Bernard DeVoto to believe that 1846 was the great divide in U.S. history. He has written this book...
Although we are fighting an "ideological war" to wipe out fascism Mowrer cited examples of our losing that battle by our openly admitting that Spain was getting more gas than the East Coast and promising Franco that he would remain unmolested at the peace settlements...