Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Thus briefly Franklin Roosevelt laid out his remedial changes for the U. S. defense setup. He left no doubt that, when his reorganization order was published, National Defense would finally have all the authority it has lacked to give it direction and speed, to wipe out confusion in priorities and procurement...
...churchman inside Germany prays privately for a Nazi defeat or at least a check to Hitler's power. Said a Catholic news dispatch from Geneva last month: "It is generally anticipated that in the case of a victorious war the Nazi regime would no longer hesitate to wipe out all vestiges of Christianity in Germany and try to establish a 'national church' under Nazi supervision which would be entirely based on the pagan conceptions of 'blood and soil...
Even making due allowance for an unconscionable jocularity, there was a deliberate recklessness in Professor Seavey's suggestion that we wipe out immediately the Japanese fleet and a deliberate casualness in Professor Elliott's statement that war was no worse than traffic in Harvard Square that made it hard to believe this was a serious discussion of the most serious of all proposals. The questions from the students were sincere and intelligent, but they were turned aside alternately with facetiousness from Professor Seavey and with a threatening truculence by Professor Elliot, who attributed to his questioners the most discreditable motives...
...along the Voiussa River, aiming at Tepeleni. Two other columns swept down the Dhrino Valley toward Argirocastro ("Silver Fort") and over the mountains toward Porto Edda. One more Greek column pushed up across the Kalamas River out of Epirus, driving the last invader from Greek soil and threatening to wipe him out of southern Albania as well. With the Italians in retreat everywhere, the ultimate object of all the Greek columns was to cut off their foe from his ports of escape...
...line-up next December will wipe out the ward system of politics, and councilmen will have to run on a city-wide program. Harvard representatives will find themselves philosophising to the factory workers from Lechmere, and Mickey Sullivan will have to chat with the Communists of Harvard Square. Perhaps when East Cambridge and Brattle Street are concerned with each other, the "good people of the town" will be a little less parochial, the "others" less resentful; and Harvard-Cambridge relationships more friendly...