Word: wiping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might soon be forgotten-were it not for the possibility that the loss could be the only one Intrepid will ever suffer. Skeptics who considered how Architect Olin Stephens could improve his design for Constellation-the boat that beat Eagle in the 1964 U.S. trials, then went on to wipe up Britain's Sovereign in four straight races-got their answer when Intrepid whipped Connie three times in a row by ever bigger margins: 50 sec., 1 min. 44 sec., 2 min. 11 sec. In two rematches with Eagle, Intrepid coasted...
...behind the actions is North Korea's shrewd Premier Kim II Sung, 55, Korea's World War II resistance hero against the Japanese. Kim took full party power in 1955 and, through intrigue, murder, imprisonment and character assassination, managed to wipe out every shred of political opposition. A ruthless strategist and master manipulator, he holds onto power by the old Stalinist tactic of periodic purges. The most recent came last October when he shuffled the Central Committee, sacking three key officials and longtime associates...
...years, the U.S. Government has been working out ways and means of dealing with the probability that someday the Treasury would run out of silver. Despite that commendable foresight, Treasury was taken by surprise when the crisis arrived. Confronted by a sudden buying rush that threatened to wipe out its dwindling stockpile, the Treasury barely had time to put its plans into action. Sales of its silver for export were abruptly halted; domestic sales were limited to "legitimate industrial users," and the export or melting of silver coins was forbidden.* "We knew we'd get out of the silver...
...support of Gary's white voters in the 1964 presidential primary. Openly appealing to anti-Negro voters, a third candidate, Bernard Konrady, siphoned off more than 13,000 votes that would most likely have gone to Katz-five times as many as the mayor would have needed to wipe out Hatcher's minuscule (2,462) majority...
...Hatcher were white, he would be certain of victory; the machine has made Indiana's second biggest city a Democratic fiefdom for more than 50 years. As a Negro, he must campaign on ability and personality. He has both, and already has firm plans to wipe out the prostitution and gambling that have made "Steel City U.S.A."-as its boosters like to call it-synonymous with vice in a large section of the Midwest. "I hope to give the people of Gary an administration of which they can be proud," Hatcher says without a trace of braggadocio...