Word: wiping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most detested Congressmen: Georgia Democrat Phil Landrum, who, with Michigan's Republican Robert P. Griffin, authored last session's Teamster-haltering labor bill. In Lawrenceville, Ga., Landrum's primary opponent, F. Quill Sammon Jr., denied knowledge of Hoffa's grand offer. Wailed Sammon, trying to wipe off the kiss of death: "If Hoffa does want to help me, that's a heck of a way for him to do it, by saying...
...speed Lockheed's profit recovery.* For the past six weeks, Lockheed has been operating profitably, hopes to cut its overall loss to $45 million by year's end. With a tax rebate and an estimated $30 million in earnings over the next 18 months, Lockheed expects to wipe out the loss completely, be on a moneymaking basis...
...imitation actress should be dragged by the hair to see Miss Dailey," wrote Critic Bernard Levin in the Daily Express. "She sweats love, breathes hate, weeps desire." The Times catalogued her as "a fully-fledged, Swinburnian femme fatale." Wrote the Daily Mail's Robert Muller: "The performance will wipe the smirk off the faces of those who scoff at the school of psychological interpretation known as the Method. It is theatrical magic...
...course, the pessimistic school concedes this and talks only of the future with its 'missile gap,' etc. I shall yield them this much: If the day in fact came when the Russians had a clear-cut, visible, undoubtable military superiority, including the capacity to wipe out our deterrent with a surprise attack, there would be reason to worry. It seems to me that with every development-the Polaris submarine being the best current example-the chances of such a decisive superiority become less. In any case, it is quite clear that the attitude in the world at large...
...contented, fortyish bachelor in a London suburb, but unfortunately for his bucolic peace of mind, he has spent some time in Buchenwald as a British spy successfully masquerading as a Gestapo captain. Naturally, the vengeful killer does not know this, knows only that he has a score to wipe out with a Nazi. If the characters seem led rather than driven, the details of the man hunt are always in sure hands, and it is plain that after all these years suspense is still a Household word...