Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambridge to M.I.T. to Caltech have been programmed to play Life, sometimes to the chagrin of those in charge of the costly machines. Martin Gardner tells of one computer specialist who has a special panic button under his desk: whenever a supervisor comes into the room, the specialist can wipe the display screen clean; later, after the supervisor has left, the computer can reach into its memory and pick up the game exactly where it left off. Nor are Americans or Britons the only ones addicted. Gardner has gotten inquiries about Life from as far off as Moscow, New Delhi...
Moreover, since any Congressman who is seeking re-election must face the voters in less than eleven months, the House is also where political panic over Watergate is first being sensed. House Republicans are worried that Nixon's troubles will wipe them out at the polls next year. After a secret survey, G.O.P. strategists calculated that the party may lose as many as 75 of the 191 House seats that it now holds. In the Senate, they found, Nixon's failure to resolve Watergate problems may cost Republicans six of their 43 seats, those of Kansas' Robert...
...Leash. If Israel continues to balk, Egypt's Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy said last week, war could again erupt. Egypt's military commanders are said to be "straining at the leash," confident that they could wipe out Israel's west bank salient. Brigadier General Hassan Abu Saada, a commander of part of Egypt's forces on the canal's east bank, boasted that his troops are ready to fight. "Give me an order from Cairo," he exclaimed, "and I'll push on!" Israel Defense Minister Moshe Dayan scoffed at the Egyptian saber rattling...
...Wounded Knee, I asked deputy press secretary Gerald Warren whether Nixon was aware of what was going on. Unequivocally, for a change, Warren said "yes." Thus it was the president himself who approved the dragging out of that reckless case until finally even the Justice Department had to wipe the indictment off its books. Nixon's trophy: agony for Tom Oliphant and his family and some $30,000 in legal fees for the Boston Globe...
...George Catavolo is a well-known North Cambridge politician who has run for School Committee (and lost) several times. Catabolo says that the school budget should be cut drastically by improving management techniques, but he also says that the School Department should wipe out unem- ployment in Cambridge by hiring extra personnel...