Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Portland Summer Symphony became the first concert orchestra to hire Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy as guest artists. Object: to wipe out a $1,500 deficit. (Failed by $500, because of bad weather.) McCarthy gagged between numbers, did not conduct the orchestra. Said Conductor Paul LeMay, who did: "I wouldn't do it again...
...height of the Battle of the Meuse-Argonne, Corporal York, his sergeant and 15 men were ordered to wipe out a hillful of German machine-gun nests. Maneuvering to outflank the enemy, they stumbled on a field headquarters and captured 20 German officers and men. A burst of machine-gun fire cut down half of York's companions. The corporal thereupon, singlehanded, picked off 20 machine-gunners-enough to persuade the entire 35-gun salient to surrender. York and seven survivors marched 132 prisoners to the rear...
Ford Motor Co. also promised to wipe out the strong-arm Ford service squad, used in the past to enforce discipline, break union assaults on Ford's anti-union citadel...
John L. Lewis won a famous victory last week when the Southern coal operators agreed to wipe out the 40?-a-day differential between day wages in the northern and southern Appalachian coal fields. It was a famous victory because John L. Lewis, backed up by the National Defense Mediation Board, got a concession which the Southern operators had stubbornly fought three months to deny him. But his victory did not mean quite what appeared on the surface...
...Communist Party is destroyed we thereby rid ourselves of the one real society in restraint of revolution just as surely as removing toxins from the body would wipe out antitoxins. I know of nothing that promotes a greater satisfaction with the U.S Constitution and its guarantees than listening to the long-range dialecticians of the Kremlin whose thinking is usually conditioned by the amount of static on their short-wave receiving sets...