Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Assembly, "is . . . establishing an international order of peace and justice. Yet, for over three years, there was a war in Korea. A war in Indo-China still goes on. Nowhere is there a sense of security . . . Physical scientists have now found means which, if they are developed, can wipe life off the surface of this planet. These words that I speak are words that can be taken literally...
They sought recruits in homes and prisons, saloons and parish houses, burlesque theaters and offices, then interrogated them in private. They took notes in a code which was nowhere written down, and preserved only in the memories of the four. They never traveled together, lest an accident wipe out their secret with them. Coded and catalogued, the facts were locked away, and the book written from them printed in utmost secrecy. Last week presses clattered, turning out pages that were scrupulously counted to make sure that none got away before publication date (Sept...
Medical scientists now have both the knowledge they need to wipe out tuberculosis as a public-health problem and the tools to finish the job. In the U.S., at least, with plenty of space for its people, resources to house and feed them decently, and wonder drugs by the carload, the TB victim these days dies not so much from his disease as from neglect. Last week health and Government officials in Alabama were in distress as they faced up to the fact that, although their state runs an energetic TB detection campaign, it lags sadly in preventing the disease...
...with the truce seemingly so near, were the Reds still attacking so fiercely on the battlefront? U.N. observers could think of several Communist motivations: 1) to wipe out a discomforting U.N. salient and get more territory for themselves; 2) to gain prestige in the closing hours; 3) to punish the ROKs-or rather to punish Rhee by bloodying the ROKs-and convince them they could get nowhere against Communist power if they fought alone...
...turn, praised McDonald's "statesmanlike conduct," expressed the hope that the cordial atmosphere would continue. To add to the good feeling, the company made the raises (not due until July) effective immediately. And in a major step toward upgrading the South's wage standards, it agreed to wipe out the traditional 5?-an-hour differential in Southern mills...