Word: wiping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...president Andrew P. Tobias '68 said yesterday that there were several reasons why they had not been able to wipe out the deficit as expected. Many of the businesses have been contributing less than they used to in order to be able to pay better wages. The HSA pays higher average wages than any other college student agency...
...Alone. Nicknamed "the Wipe Lady" because of her complaints about the jail's filth, Mrs. Macdonald was soon approached by a Negro woman named "Queenie," who announced: "I never had a white woman before. Are we going to have fun with you tonight." She was later told that "money talks, Wipe Lady," and bought her way out of trouble with cigarettes and candy. But she could do nothing to help a woman in the next cell who was so tormented by her roommates that she tried to commit suicide by putting her head in the toilet and flushing...
Eventually, things will sift out and settle down. Most likely the quad system will have more appeal than the University clubs and it will involve nearly everyone at Princeton. Financial pressures should wipe out most private clubs. A few of them will remain, however, and the situation in about five years will resemble that at Harvard and Yale...
...Greeks would accept the good office of Italy's Manlio Brosio, the NATO Secretary-General, as mediator in the dispute. It was a hopeful development, but by no means a permanent one. The situation remained so tense that a handful of men with submachine guns on Cyprus could wipe out the diplomatic achievements in a matter of seconds and plunge Turkey and Greece into...
Shannon also faults Bobby for his failure to take charge of New York State's unruly Democratic Party. "Not since New York Republicans began a dozen years ago to wipe Thomas E. Dewey's shoe polish from their faces," writes Shannon, has any politician enjoyed so promising an opportunity to make his influence felt. But Bobby has written "a record of defeat, inconsequence and confused purposes" in the state. And, warns Shannon, "if Nelson Rockefeller, Jacob Javits and John Lindsay can defeat Robert Kennedy's party in New York, they may be the men to defeat...