Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assassin's bullets 2½ years ago. Luis got himself elected in his father's place. While brother Tachito tried to keep the country quiet under the heavy thumb of the national guard, U.S.-educated (Universities of California. Maryland and Louisiana State) President Luis tried to wipe out the dictator label. He freed the press, treated plotters with unheard-of leniency, promised free elections in 1963. even proposed a constitutional amendment that would prevent him or any near relative from following him to the presidency...
Earlier Retirement. While only a handful called for a general wage increase (average demand: 12½? or 15? an hour), many a worker wanted to wipe out wage inequities and sweeten fringe benefits...
...size but bold in heart," and toured their few factories and roads (all built by Soviet technicians with Soviet funds). He also brought along his Defense Minister, Marshal Malinovsky, to play straight man for his warnings to the neighboring Greeks and Italians that "shortrange" missiles fired from Albania could wipe out their cities, and so they had better think twice about being used as NATO missile bases...
Behind the crisis was an impending $120 million deficit and a controversy over the proper new tax to erase it (TIME, May 4). Governor Williams wants to tap a $50 million veterans' fund for immediate cash, replenish the till and wipe out the deficit with corporate and personal income taxes. Old Guard Republicans, who control the state senate, are agreeable to using the trust fund. But they want to increase Michigan's 3% sales tax to 4% and avoid an income tax, refuse to release the veterans' fund until Williams agrees. Still adamant. Soapy Williams offered...
...summer of 1926 was a 6-ft. 4-in. American medical student named Ben Spock, who owned a resplendent red handlebar mustache and an oilcloth blackboard. After a ten-hour day of shoveling gravel and sand to keep the railroad track from sinking into the muskeg, Spock would wipe the sweat from his mustache, wolf a huge supper, and unroll his blackboard. His afterhours task: teaching basic English to 40 sunburned Galician laborers. "I didn't get very far," recalls Dr. Spock, who has since lost the mustache, become a pediatrician and won wide fame as an expert...