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Word: wipe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Squash is hell, or the "Thank-God-theater-warfare-isn't-played-out-on-four-walls" sport. Having dismissed the Navy Midshipmen in short order before Christmas, the Harvard men's squash team took time off from reding period this weekend to wipe out yet another branch of the armed forces, Army, by a score...

Author: By John Rippey, | Title: Crimson Crushes Cadets; Brog Topples No. 1 Tiger | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

Problems for S and Ls are serious elsewhere too. A list kept by the Home Loan Bank Board shows that 200 S and Ls could be close to reaching the point where their liabilities exceed their assets and wipe out their net worth. Hundreds more may be in that position within a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Casualties of the Revolution | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

...ghost hunting; the greater fun is for viewers to see how they are being fooled, to see the bamboozler bamboozled. Most of the products Horowitz tests pass with high marks-he estimates 75%-but the blood sport is watching the advertisers turn into bozos when Horowitz can't wipe the scrawl off the Sherwin-Williams paint job, when three dozen eggs (out of 14 dozen) don't survive a drive in a Renault and when eleven shoppers out of eleven pass over margarine for the high-priced spread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Fighting Back | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

...particular level that would be more easily verified. Once one can verify the other side's arsenal there is a lot more safety. However, I think that should one go to a very low level of nuclear arms this would be counterproductive... It would act as an incentive to wipe out just the few remaining of the other country...

Author: By Compiled BY Ann scott, | Title: Disarmament: A Realistic Goal? | 11/21/1981 | See Source »

...nuclear peace cannot be assured by the super- powers alone (though they are the only ones with arsenals large enough to wipe out the planet). Disarmament must extend to the other nations with nuclear capabilities, and the U.S. and Russia must use every economic, diplomatic and political pressure to insure that these nations too disarm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Meaning Of Deterrence | 11/10/1981 | See Source »

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