Word: clobbered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bush's advisers at the Pentagon and at coalition headquarters in Riyadh are "good to go" for a ground war, in part because it gives them a chance to clobber the ghosts of Vietnam. Meanwhile, Gorbachev's generals are licking their wounds from Afghanistan, bringing home the pieces of the Warsaw Pact and supervising commando raids against civilians in restive republics. That makes them all the more dyspeptic about their principal rival's pummeling a longtime Soviet client whose northern border is only about 400 miles from the U.S.S.R. Moreover, Operation Desert Storm is decimating a military establishment made...
CHEERS (NBC, Nov. 8, 9 p.m. EST). While The Simpsons and Cosby try to clobber each other, this hardy perennial has quietly passed them both and grabbed the No. 1 ratings spot. Tonight the barroom gang marks its 200th episode with an hour-long special featuring talk-show host John McLaughlin...
...Florida, shaking hands and swapping stories for more than 1,000 miles on his way to victory. Citing "burnout," Chiles retired from the Senate and politics in 1988. Yet when he quick-started his campaign for Governor in April, Chiles' enduring popularity made him the instant favorite to clobber Congressman Bill Nelson in the Sept. 4 Democratic primary, and to oust Martinez in November...