Word: wiping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite Massachusetts, which more than any other state allows its hungry poor to starve, Myer says, "We could wipe out hunger in the United States within a year if we tried. Last year we spent $1.5 billion on our food programs and over $5 billion on our farm price support programs. We have the resources and are capable of the task. It is not a question of whether we can wipe out hunger, but when, or if we want to . . . In Massachusetts no one cares. Maurice Donabue, the one man who supported action, no longer holds a state office. "Biggest...
...This harassment is part of a greater plan to attack our office. We expect the pigs to wipe us out imminently. This morning's action was not a scare tactic but a dry run to check the response of the people," Jones said yesterday...
...author as well as director and costar. The contributions made by Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara, though, must have been enormous. Cassavetes works in a very personal, freewheeling style that draws heavily on the inspiration of his actors. The performers are so supremely good in their roles that they wipe out any distinction between the actor and the character. The virtuoso feat may be unnoticed by audiences who prefer to assume that the three are merely playing themselves...
Kitty Harding, a spokesman for the Committee, accused Scalese of "having a personal vendetta against the Panthers." saying, "He's a dangerous man and wants to wipe us out." Harding said that Scalese had also been involved in the raid upon the "Juche" commune last week...
...thinker to believe that their movement offers a serious alternative to the megamachine. It is too machinelike itself, with youth running in herds that differ little from those that cram corporation offices. Theirs is not a new consciousness but a very ancient and dubious one: a primordial desire to wipe the slate clean and make a fresh start. But a new start, says Mumford, requires people who have digested the lessons of the past, not rejected them as irrelevant...