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Word: wipe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Flesh sexist? Near the beginning of the movie, Joe says to his wife, "Do you want to make me happy?" When she says yes, Joe continues, "Then do my laundry." In a way, there's enough self-parody here to wipe out the chauvinism. And even if there weren't. Joe isn't so much sexist as bored. The scene takes place in bed, Joe sprawled naked next to his wife. Joe is as much a sex object as his partner. Everyone in the movie, in fact, is in some sense an object, and most of the objects...

Author: By Martin H. Kaplan and Carol R. Sternhell, S | Title: Andy's Gang If You Loved Trash... | 5/21/1971 | See Source »

...submarine-carried missiles, airborne bombs) that either side would be allowed to maintain. The suggested ceiling: 1,900. There would also be a "sub-limit" prohibiting the Soviets from assembling more than, say, 250 missiles in the size range of the huge SS-9, whose 25-megaton warheads can wipe out U.S. ICBMs even in the hardest silos. As part of the total U.S. package, the American delegation last year proposed that ABM systems be either banned outright or limited to the defense of Moscow and Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Disarmament: SALT Up to Date | 5/17/1971 | See Source »

...successful Kennedy Round of 1964-67, this time aimed at elimination of nontariff barriers to trade and investment. This conference would be an ideal forum in which to press the Japanese to remove their remaining restrictions. In return the U.S. should try to persuade European nations to wipe out their restrictions on Japanese goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Japan, Inc.: Winning the Most Important Battle | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

Harvard's consistency-the five men contributing to the Crimson total were separated by only three strokes-was unable to wipe out the lead built up by the performance of the opposition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Lose Big Three; Can't Eqnal Elis, Tigers | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

...easy task for an actor to evoke tears for a character who is so full of self-pity. It is proof of Chamberlain's high emotive gift that members of an audience, so rapt that they never coughed, had cause, more than once, to wipe their eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Barrymore | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

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