Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter to TIME, Sept. 25. He stated: "... The Reds . . . might not want to push us off the map yet; if they wait a few more weeks, we will have brought to Korea the biggest part of our front-line fighting force . . . Then, a real all-out offensive . . . could actually wipe out a major part of our trained and equipped ground forces...
...Illud) calling for a "sacred crusade" for peace. Though destined for other purposes, the human mind, he said, has devised "instruments of war of such power as to raise horror in the souls of all honest persons, above all because they do not strike only the armies but often wipe out private citizens-children, women, the aged and the sick-and with them sacred buildings and the most outstanding monuments...
Speaking at Rindge Tech auditorium with Louis B. Nichols, Assistant Director of the F.B.I., and Irving H. Saypol, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, on the topic, "Crime in the United States," Sprigle said, "Ten honest aggressive cops could wipe out the rackets in Boston. When you hear anyone asking for federal laws to end racketeering, remember that it exists only with the permission and cooperation of local law enforcing bodies...
...first function would wipe out some of the inadequacy of the present Dean's Office system, which is badly overburdened. As a consequence, students who need Dean's Office attention very often get nothing more personal than a stock 15 minute lecture from an unfamiliar assistant dean. The function of coordinating the House's tutorial activity also looks laudable. It will help to keep the undergraduate seminars active and free from uninterested students and incapable instructors...
Such beliefs lead him to take an indulgent view of Kavanagh, a lusty fishmonger who has murdered a servant girl in a swirl of passion. They also lead Ezra to seduce Romilly, the sister of his friend Father Mellowes, simply because he wants to "wipe some of that look of innocence off her face." In long conversations, Ezra and Father Mellowes conclude that the greatest human sin is indifference and that Christ "liked anyone who let themselves be carried away...