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Word: wipes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urging action. And most important, the President went to Geneva, where he became chummy with the Soviets and apparently convinced them that neither the East nor the West could afford to bear the guilt of starting the Third, and last, World War, in which atomic and nuclear weapons might wipe out Man himself. Could Stevenson have afforded to be this? We doubt it. Would the Republicans have accepted the ensuing "competitive coexistence" if it had come from a Democrat who had been attacked for giving Alger Hiss a character reference? We doubt it. Would Senator McCarthy have refrained from shouting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STEVENSON | 10/17/1956 | See Source »

Last November President Eisenhower's Committee on Government Contracts, which seeks to wipe out discrimination in companies doing business with the Government, called together the presidents of eleven airlines. Some of them readily admitted the ban on Negro flight personnel, but promised to eliminate it gradually. Last week's statement was one of the first big steps in this direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Big Step | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...State has suggested two routes, both of which would cut across East Cambridge, Vellucci's home section. One route, according to Vellucci, "will wipe out an entire neighborhood, including my own home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vellucci Threatens to Put Highway Through Center of Harvard Yard | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...Communist and was in the U.B. They would not help us. My mother went to church to ask for soup. Can you imagine how I felt? Did my family deserve this? It was poverty that made me steal. I had no other way out. (Suwart paused to wipe his face with a handkerchief, so the prosecutor asked another question: "Are you still a Socialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: LIFE UNDER COMMUNISM | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...wipe out the bitterness and class struggle" fostered by the Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Claim to the Future | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

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