Word: wiping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate, Nixon men had confidently expected their man to give Kennedy a decisive trouncing. Nixon himself was less cocky. He had debated with Kennedy on a public platform back in 1947, when they were both freshman Congressmen, and recalled him as a tough antagonist. "Everyone expects me to wipe up the floor with this guy," Nixon said before the first debate. "But it's not going to be easy...
...supplies and refusing it transport, Katanga troops killed scores in punitive raids on Baluba villages. Last week the U.N. moved hundreds of troops into isolated northern and central Katanga to quell the rioters. At first Tshombe agreed, but when he saw that full-scale occupation by the U.N. might wipe out his own control of the area, he too lashed out at the U.N. Object of his ire was Ian Berendsen, U.N. chief in Katanga. "He is totally inefficient," roared Tshombe. "This representative has been working with such bad faith that I consider myself obliged to demand his immediate recall...
Stockpiled in the four nations with nuclear weapons is the equivalent of 10,000 tons of T.N.T. for every man, woman, and child on earth; the United States alone has sufficient nuclear power to wipe out the Soviet Union two-and-one-half times over. There is talk of a Doomsday Machine, powerful enough to destroy the entire world, which would be detonated the moment the United States is attacked. These facts are terrifying; they make the arms race a real and immediate concern of every American citizen. It is essential that they be presented and discussed, but the SANE...
...Manhattan's Academy of Religion and Mental Health, the breakdown of a minister's wife is most often caused by pressure to conform. "This is compounded by her own guilts and anxieties-guilt over her own shortcomings and her earlier history. Marrying a minister doesn't wipe out either her past or her thoughts." In the view of a Boston psychiatrist, ministers' wives suffer most from a feeling of "abandonment." Several of his patients are up to their ears in church work, using it as a substitute for a personal need that is not fulfilled...
...Protestant monks! To wipe out completely the small step forward taken by the Reformation, the only thing left to do will be to give them strings beads and have them mutter meaningless prayers...