Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem is that the result of a negotiation might be different. We could be railroaded into something we don't want to do, which is to wipe out all nuclear weapons in Europe, the so-called third zero...
...m.p.h. could dig a crater a mile or so across and several hundred feet deep -- similar in size to a gaping hole in the Arizona earth, known as Meteor Crater, that was blasted out some 40,000 years ago. Such an impact today would be enough to wipe out a major population center...
...supplied all the kidneys we need through voluntary donation would be no special favor to our Turkish friend, who would be left with no sale and no $4,400. Why not at least let his heirs sell his kidneys when he dies? A commercial market in cadaver organs would wipe out the sale of live people's parts a lot more expeditiously than trying to encourage donations...
Factually speaking, I wasn't really in the Eliot House dining hall, but with Dan Quayle unable to wipe a smirk off his burnt flash-bulb of a face, and with George Bush--George Bush--finally able to look old Ron in the eye and say, "Well, pard...," it sure feels like I'm choking on a nation-wide haze of loose strands of woollen argyle and wafting fumes of Bean's Best Leather Oil. So I decided to get on a train. Heading north...
...wipe out the deficit is to grow our way out of it. Hold the line on Government spending while the economy grows and gradually throws off more tax revenue. Money for new programs should come from trimming waste from old ones...