Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those nine, six were in the opening seven events of the evening, as the Crimson flexed its version of muscle to wipe up LaSalle very early...
...Separated from Nigeria by the narrow countries of Togo and Benin (see map), Ghana is ruled by Flight Lieut. Jerry Rawlings, who seized power for the second time 13 months ago. Rawlings had ordered all his borders with neighboring countries to be closed last September in an effort to wipe out smuggling and assuage his own fears about an external coup plot said to involve foreign mercenaries...
...prone turn public surfaces into visual rubbish. Bicyclists often ride as though two-wheeled vehicles are exempt from all traffic laws. Litterbugs convert their communities into trash dumps. Widespread flurries of ordinances have failed to clear public places of high-decibel portable radios, just as earlier laws failed to wipe out the beer-soaked hooliganism that plagues many parks. Tobacco addicts remain hopelessly blind to signs that say NO SMOKING. Respectably dressed pot smokers no longer bother to duck out of public sight to pass around a joint. The flagrant use of cocaine is a festering scandal in middle...
...mind," recalled Marbach. (Andrews will report for work for his new $10,500-a-year truck-loader's position as soon as his knee ligaments, torn during the rescue, are healed.) Three days after the incident, an anonymous donor sent Andrews a $3,000 bank check to wipe out his debts. Andrews has a special sympathy for the blind; his sister lost her eyesight in a New York City subway robbery over four years ago. "If it had been my sister there," said Andrews, "I wouldn't want anyone to just stand around." Said Philip Mottley, a friend...
...much as 90% American parts and labor in models recording 900,000 or more U.S. sales a year. The scheme could raise prices as much as $3,000 a car on makes such as Datsun and Toyota, and probably ignite a trade war that would wipe out many more jobs in American export industries than it would save in U.S. auto factories. The bill will probably pass the House but will be deservedly ignored in the Senate...