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Word: wipes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people have the right to know what I stand for," Ike began. His ideas were clear: this business of centralism in government. There was too much of the bureaucracy, too much looking to Washington. He wanted to get the federal government organized so it did not wipe out the states and the municipalities and the communities. He didn't want to have people looking to Washington for everything. The problem was that the federal government was "taking so much money from everyone it left no resources for local government to run its educational apparatus. That was the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: In Search of History | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...History!"-and now she reverted to the assassination scene again, as she did all through the conversation. "... Everybody kept saying to me to put a cold towel around my head and wipe the blood off [she was now recollecting the scene and picture of the swearing in of Lyndon Johnson on Air Force One at Love Field, as the dead President lay aft] ... I saw myself in the mirror, my whole face spattered with blood and hair. I wiped it off with Kleenex. History! I thought, no one really wants me there. Then one second later I thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: In Search of History | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

Cuba and Angola should not bear any responsibilities for the so-called invasion of Shaba by Katangese rebels. What Jimmy Carter fails to realize is that Africa is determined to wipe out completely Western domination of the continent. Cuba has the blessing of Africans, especially the younger generation, and anyone who opposes Cuba in Africa digs his own grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 26, 1978 | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

Needed: an international campaign to wipe out terrorism, as piracy was once obliterated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1978 | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...customers nonetheless started to complain. Environmentalists were alarmed by violations of federal clean-air standards and a 1975 near disaster at Brown's Ferry nuclear power station in Alabama. Next, environmentalists sued to block the TVA from building the Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River, which would wipe out the snail darter, a three-inch perch found only in those waters; that battle goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: A Conservationist Shakes the TVA | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

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