Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Linen Suit. In 1932 the party ordered him to go underground -in other words, wipe out his identity and become a secret agent, a spy. His wife cried; he himself was reluctant. But like any good Communist, he obeyed. The New Masses' Whittaker Chambers vanished. A man known simply as "Carl" appeared in the Red "cells" and in the innermost circles of the Communist underground. He buried his identity so successfully that some of his accomplices thought he was a Russian; one of them was positive that he was a Russian ex-colonel. The little boy who had peddled...
...buck the stubborn peasant suspicion that wrecked last year's campaign to wipe out aftosa by mass slaughter of exposed herds (TIME, Dec. 8), the Apostles had their missionary line well worked out. The first step was usually to persuade the local governor, general or presidente municipal to put his seal of approval on vaccination by putting his cattle through the process first. Next move was to persuade the parish priest to give a little sermon. Sample: "God has brought a terrible scourge upon us sinners. But God is merciful. He has also brought the anti-aftosa commission...
...could tell them yet whether the drive was winning; the next six to eight months will give that answer. If vaccination fails to wipe out the plague, then Mexico must probably resign herself to living more or less permanently with aftosa, controlling it as best she can. And the threat of disastrous infection from across the border will hang heavy over the $11 billion U.S. livestock industry...
...week's end, many newspapers decided, like Uncle Toby, that they should wipe it up and say no more about it. Nevertheless, the fact that the press had so misinterpreted events right under its nose raised the grave question of whether it was doing an equally bad job in interpreting news in other fields than politics...
...Washington, D.C., a tube of brand-name shaving cream sells for 23? v. the Baltimore "fair-trade" price of 39?. A diabetic pays $1.65 for insulin that costs $2.47 in Baltimore. And the fair-traders are working hard to wipe out even these few remaining islands of price competition...