Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aerial photographs of the battlefield and received a full report. Your wall of rockets consists of so many batteries (he specified the number), you have 800 tanks surrounding the Israeli Deversoir pocket, the number of your guns is (again he specified it) and you can actually wipe out that pocket. You must know, however, that if you do this the Pentagon will strike...
...Setting a voter turnout level will kill us and wipe out all these months of work," Johnathan Propp '80, a Mather House delegate, said last night...
...started to worry that they may be exposed," Haldeman says. This was the first taped post-burglary conversation. Haldeman believes Nixon set out to censor it, but since he "was the least dexterous man I have ever known," he discovered that "it would take him ten years" to wipe out all the incriminating words. Indeed, court-appointed tape experts detected at least five, and probably nine, starts and stops in the erasure. Haldeman claims he later was "confused" when Nixon referred to the gap as "Rose's 18 minutes"-but that could easily have been the President...
Anybody that is, except Harvard, and this is all that remains on Taylor's "things-to-do" chart for the season. He wants to wipe out a current eight-game losing streak versus Harvard, beat his former colleague Billy Cleary, and give the Yale fans one more big win before the Zamboni, comes off for the final time...
...floods. These leave behind forgettable statistics and unforgettable images of devastated towns and battered humanity that can only humble people in the face of such wrath. Farmers often suffer the most, from the drought and plagues of biblical times to the hailstorms or quick freezes that even today can wipe out whole crops in minutes. Last week's icy assault on the Midwest, for all its ferocity and cost, is merely another reminder of the in escapable vulnerability of life and social well-being to the whims of the weather...