Word: wiping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than most other U.S. communities-it probably has less, thanks to uncrowded living conditions and abundant sea breezes-but the makeup of its population is a good cross section of the nation. And it has plenty of what Dr. Kandle calls the "win-it-now spirit," determination to wipe out old-fashioned TB completely before a new super strain of drug-defying bacilli can emerge...
...Welsh mother always said that with problem boys up to the age of 50, you either wipe their noses or whack their backsides. Would suggest the latter, with a No. 6 shovel...
Anxious to wipe out the memory of those first 45 minutes, the Crimson out-hustled, out-shot, and out-scored the Engineer ten in the closing minutes. Shooting from the left side of the nets, sophomore midfielder Bruce Caputo scored his first varsity goal at 11:07. Lou Williams added the varsity's ninth on a solo dash that covered half the field. It was the big Junior's third tally and his sixth of the season...
...girl (Tippi Hedren), a lovelorn schoolmarm (Suzanne Pleshette), an Oedipus wreck (Rod Taylor) and a pair of lovebirds. Hitchcock addicts will just be getting jittery for their first fix of gore when it suddenly becomes clear that the birds is coming: man's feathered friends set themselves to wipe out an entire village on the California coast...
...services the state-controlled organization could not match. But a year or so ago, the profits of the barbers, blacksmiths, pastrymakers, cobblers and tailors began to get out of hand; they bought cars and rented summer homes on fashionable lakesides. Last May Tito's regime decided to wipe them out. Taxes on private business were raised sevenfold. A private tailor with one helper paid the same amount of tax as a Belgrade tailors' Communist cooperative with seven employees. It was too much for any artisan. By the end of 1962, nearly 10,000 private craftsmen closed up shop...