Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ready warheads, more than 25,000 are "tactical"-designed for short-range (mostly under 30 miles) battlefield or defensive use. Many are tiny power-packages of less than a kiloton (equal to 1,000 tons of TNT) that could be sent on slender, supersonic missiles to wipe out a company, sink a ship or shoot down planes...
...during the 2nd century B.C., a king led his army against Indian invaders with a relic of Buddha in his spear. In Viet Nam and elsewhere, Buddhists often took an active part in fighting against colonial powers. During the Korean war, at least some Buddhists were preaching that "to wipe out the American imperialist demons is not only blameless but meritorious." Ignoring the Chinese Communists' cruel persecution of Buddhism in Tibet, some Buddhists reason (as one scholar puts it) that when the Marxists' material needs are satisfied, they will "need something spiritual above and beyond," and that Buddhism...
...ears as far as surfing goes but like to immerse themselves in the dense jargon of the in group. To all, "baggies" are the loose-legged boxer swim trunks worn by the boys. "Hot dogging" is either class-A surfing or show-off stuff. To "take gas" or "wipe out" is to lose a board in the curl of a wave and land in the foamy "soup...
...lead over the Russians in ICBMs, which can land the weapons on any chosen target. 3) The superior U.S. fleet of intercontinental bombers is equipped with enough larger bombs to wipe out Soviet cities many times over. One possible disadvantage: by not being able to test in the atmosphere, the U.S. may fail to find out enough about the effects which the Red superbombs might have on U.S. defenses, such as blurring radar and knocking out delicate electronic ground-control mechanisms...
...time for a victory kiss before his competitors were hollering foul. "Don't use my name," said one, "because they'd never let me come back here again. But it was a dirty, cheating victory. There was oil all over that goddam track." "I had to wipe the oil off my goggles every time I came down the straightaway," complained McCluskey, tossing off a tumbler full of booze. "They had the black flag out, but Agajanian talked them out of it." Said Eddie Sachs, who was driving in his seventh 500: "This is the rottenest victory...