Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Louis Raemaekers' statement [TIME, Sept. 30] that it is impossible to wipe all the Germans off the face of the earth intrigues me. I keep turning it over in my mind...
...share of Germans, including German women, German children, German grandpas and German grandmas without any unduly unpleasant digestive aftereffects, albeit I am generally considered a mild, kindly woman. . . . But is there anything in the obligations of civilization to prevent sterilization of all Germans? . . And wouldn't that eventually wipe them off the face of the earth...
...beds. That is one reason for higher oyster prices this year. Oystermen have other foes. Nastiest is a thing called the drill, which bores through the oyster's shell, devours the oyster. One active drill can liquidate 30 to 200 oysters a season; a swarm of them can wipe out a young crop. But most oystermen save their wrath for the starfish (good for nothing but fertilizer), which glaums on an oyster, wears it out until it opens up, then eats it. Oystermen fight them with lime, catch them in moplike sweeps. Last year starfish wiped out part...
...horse outfits have many a spot in the hemisphere they can still call their own. For service in the swamps and woods of the southern U. S., in the arroyos of the Mexican border, in the Rockies and the Appalachians, the man in the McClellan saddle thinks he can wipe the eye of any carburetor trooper, may yet have a chance to prove...