Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...administration has been scratching its head wondering how to decrease drinking on campus, but there really isn't so much drinking to wipe out. Considering the incredible level of stress and widespread dissatisfaction with campus life, there is remarkably little imbibing. The real question to consider might be why there isn't more drinking on campus. Alcohol seems to do the student body good...
Although the 3-0 weekend helps to wipe the bad taste of the Michigan trip, Harvard eyes much loftier goals...
...Eagle's Web, last year ran one student's emphatic plea for two-ply. "I didn't even know they sold one-ply toilet paper any more in this country," wrote the student, Phil Schneider. "This is America, for god sakes! We've fought wars so that we could wipe ourselves without having the paper rip into little pieces like Quentin Tarrentino's [sic] career...
...even after the Japanese bubble burst, the experts on the Asian model justified similar excesses around the region because we were on the cusp of the Asian Century, one of limitless growth. The vaunted technocrats thought--or perhaps hoped--that they could once more invoke the Asian model to wipe away the looming mess. Only recently have most governments admitted that there is no easy...
PARIS: Ever since the arrival of protease inhibitors, Americans could be forgiven for feeling that the fight against AIDS was all over but the shouting. New figures from the United Nations Wednesday ought to wipe away such complacency, however: It turns out that we've underestimated the number of AIDS cases by a third. Indeed, as many as 1 in every 100 sexually active adults has the HIV virus...