Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fourth Changsha campaign had ended in a smacking, resounding Chinese victory. The entire Japanese XI Army Corps had been involved. Once and for all the Japanese had tried to wipe out the Chinese threat along the mid-China chain of lakes; and they had failed. They had caused considerable damage-had reduced most of the buildings of Yale-in-China to a soot-blackened monument of U.S. mission enterprise-but they had been chased away in no-uncertain fashion...
Perhaps they, the generation which led our country through the First World War, are thinking of how some of them wanted to wipe the enemy off the face of the earth, some created the phrase "peace without vicotry," and how the result was an impractical mixture of both. Perhaps they are remembering that all of the allied populations firmly believed that military victory would clear the way for a form of government which they called democracy, and that this attitude was fertile ground for the nurturing of another form which they called dictatorship...
Ritchie an almost perfect setup for a cleanup. With some forces chasing the Germans beyond Bengasi, Ritchie was maneuvering this week to wipe out the Axis units on the Barca Plateau...
...wipe Mr. Jap from the face...
...stop watch of Cecil B. De Mille. Running comment was provided by Mrs. Clifford: "You old fool. . . . What's an old man like you doing this for? . . . He never kissed me like that. . . . Cliff! You stop that! (De Mille: 'Time.') . . . You come right on home. . . . And wipe off your mouth!" ∙ ∙ Errol Flynn whacked Columnist Jimmie Fidler in a nightclub, claimed Mrs. Fidler wounded him in the ear with her fork. The row was over Fidler's cracks about the movie industry, it Meanwhile attorneys for Flynn and Wife Lili Damita are arranging a property...