Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World Health Organization has helped the government wipe out yaws in Haiti, where it affected a third of the rural population in 1950. It expects to wipe out malaria in Afghanistan this year...
...police have arrested scores of priests and hundreds of Catholic laymen for showing "disrespect," distributing Catholic reading matter or taking part in Catholic demonstrations. His Congress has passed measures that 1) legalize divorce, 2) forbid outdoor religious gatherings, 3) banish religious instruction from public schools, 4) wipe out the tax exemptions of religious institutions, 5) call for election of a national assembly to cut away the constitution's provisions linking the government and the Catholic Church...
...will soon go into effect, in an effort to mollify the watchmaking nation for last year's tariff boost of up to 50% on watches. In all, some nine items (from lace to taxi meters) have been dropped an average 44% ; however, the cuts will by no means wipe out the full impact of increased tariffs...
...Suzy figured it, she was not at Epsom to clean out the bookies. Her husband, the late Leon Volterra, French theater tycoon (Folies-Bergeres and Casino de Paris), had left her well fixed. She wanted to win to wipe out a white lie: Leon had died in 1949 still believing his wife's report that he owned a Derby winner. That year, the Volterra stables were running Amour Drake, the Derby favorite, and Amour Drake was beaten in a photo finish. Léon Volterra, on his deathbed, was told his horse...
...need for mass adulation." Life With Father. Around home, according to the girls, Father was lovable but incompetent. "Every Sunday he would be mumbling about getting out in the back and doing some work," recalls Carolyn, "but all he ever did was walk around with some Soilax and wipe fingerprints off the doorknobs." Goodie apparently suffered the fate of most men who must live in a feminine household...