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Word: wipes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Incautiously, perhaps, he did more-sent a fire-breathing young special prosecutor named Nelson F. Stamler into Bergen County with orders to wipe it clean as a peeper's telescope on a summer evening. Last week-31 months later-this abnormal development was still having an intensely disturbing effect on the turgid currents of Jersey politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Grapefruit in the Garden State | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

Although the Pentagon has bungled once, it can avert further misunderstanding by making clear why the soldiers are questionable cases. A full report on each soldier will wipe out the harmful speculation, and clear the innocent of this insult of their integrity. Especially in the case of these prisoners, facts, not guesswork, should be the criteria for accusation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Army's U.S. Captives | 5/7/1953 | See Source »

...slaughtered like cattle, but the results were often different from what the Kremlin intended. In 1941 millions of Ukrainians and a host of Chechens and Tartars deserted Soviet ranks and welcomed the German invaders. Retribution came in 1945, when Stalin sent Nikita Khrushchev, the Hammer of the Ukraine, to wipe out whole villages of dissident Ukrainian peasants (TIME, Jan. 12). Chechens and Tartars were "resettled" beyond the Urals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Trouble in the Sticks | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...assembled rabbis and laymen had more than growth to be pleased about. In their own eyes, Reform has done much to wipe out the sense of deep separation from the rest of U.S. life which, they believe, long characterized the Jewish community. But recent years have seen a kind of reform of Reform-a movement away from a liberalism which was sometimes hardly distinguishable from Unitarianism. At last week's convention, Dr. Emanuel Gamoran, director of the Commission on Jewish Education, called for a deeper recognition of the Jewish past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Reforming Reform | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

President Conant has pointed out that the job of preventive medicine is to prevent medicine. The health schools of the nation struggle to wipe out disease and illness so that the doctor will become a relic of by-gone days. One Boston physician was so perturbed by this possibility that he devoted much of his life to campaigning against public health schools, fearing all the while he would be out of work if they were successful. Only through such a varied and complex list of projects does the school expect to lick the causes of disease and end it before...

Author: By Steven C. Swett, | Title: Public Health --- The World's Welfare | 4/24/1953 | See Source »

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