Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wipe out tax exemptions on unrelated profit-making enterprises run by colleges, unions and tax-free organizations such as Royal (Textron) Little's "charitable" foundations (TIME...
...Bite. In Eastbourne, England, police warned the public against a pickpocket who squirts toothpaste on his victims' clothing, then niches their wallets while helping them wipe...
Governor John 0. Pastore explained in some embarrassment what had happened. The bill was intended to establish a uniform motor vehicle code, and to wipe out all the empowering clauses of all existing motor vehicle statutes. By a sloppy bit of writing, it also wiped out all powers of cities and towns. Pastore said he would summon a special session before November (when the new law is scheduled to go into effect) to draft a new bill. Presumably this one would be read carefully first...
...each of the four cities where the drops fell. Last month, it was Kumbh-mela in Hardwar, at the headwaters of the Ganges where the water is clear and blue. Hindus believe that a bath in the Ganges at any time and at any point is enough to wipe away all the sins of a lifetime. A bath in the Ganges pool at Hardwar is considered even more effective. But a bath at Hardwar during the Kumbh-mela has the cleansing power of 100,000 ordinary baths...
William E. Jenner, Republican from Indiana, who is devoid of influence among his colleagues and partisan-minded to the last brain cell. He recently implied that the H-bomb was part of a Democratic plot to wipe out civilization. Jenner's political vision is too myopic to win him classification even as a nationalist-he seems to think that the world consists only of the state of Indiana and that small patch of Chicago which holds up Colonel Bertie McCormick's Tribune Tower. So intense were Jenner's isolationist views when he returned from a worldwide senatorial...