Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...junked long ago. Taking the former would merely hasten the demise of a peace plant which is probably doomed for the duration by materials or labor shortages. (Such a plant would become a case for a War Liabilities Adjustment Board, see p. 81.) Scrapping the latter would wipe the U.S. slate clean of a lot of uneconomic production after...
...crew-as fresh as I am tired-preparing to go out on another mission, doggedly eager to get at the Jap. Again it is Canton, the main Japanese air base. For two weeks they have been falling on us with waves of 40 to 50 bombers, trying to wipe out our fighter base. We've got to strike them in their own home...
...took a regiment of "the finest infantry that ever trod the earth . . . soldiers that Caesar or Napoleon would have given their right arms for, soldiers that Lincoln would have given both arms for" to wipe out Lebanon. The 500 Lebanese nearly wiped out the 2,500 Confederates first. Readers North and South may be startled by Author Street's account of the sordidness, trickery, confusion and coldheartedness with which the most romanced-about of wars began, and by the role which he assigns to that "Machiavelli in homespun," Abraham Lincoln, in touching...
...Authorized the Post Office to increase second-class mail rates to a point where they would wipe out an annual deficit of $78,000,000 in this classification. This struck hard at newspaper and magazine publishers, for $78,000,000 is more than the combined profits of all the publishers in the U.S. The Post Office now gets 1.8? a pound for second-class matter, claims a loss of 6? a pound...
...Professor Guerard's analysis here is clear and thorough, but the suggestion of a Pan-Europa based on regional divisions with cultural autonomy but political dependence upon the whole cannot be called thoroughly realistic. There are in Europe so many nationalistic egos that it will certainly be difficult to wipe out the national units at one fell swoop...