Word: wipe
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...joined her husband in launching their most famed drive: the New Life Movement, which directed the Chinese to be dutiful, disciplined, loyal and clean. Toward the grander end of curbing the spread of communism, men were told not to wipe their noses in public, soldiers not to spit, pedestrians not to urinate in the street. Everyone was required to forswear opium...
When the Kremlin put Kadyrov in charge of Chechnya in June 2000, many assumed he would be a transitional figure. But he has consolidated his position with the Kremlin, in part by arguing forcefully that only Chechens can wipe out the anti-Russian insurgency. To help him with this, the Russians have built up the Chechen police into a well-armed force that needs to be expanded, Kadyrov told TIME in a brief interview in Grozny. "The main task is to get the [police] up and running," he said...
...Mars made its closest approach to Earth in 60,000 years [ASTRONOMY, Sept. 1] and I watched from my backyard, it seemed appropriate to contemplate the ancient and seemingly unstoppable need of human beings to wipe out one another. Mars, the Roman god of war, would be reassured to know that people are just as bloodthirsty as ever, accomplishing with suicide bombs and attack helicopters what was once achieved by swords and spears. The next time Mars and Earth brush past each other, almost three centuries from now, either we will have driven ourselves to extinction as a species...
...QRAC was the only place that was seen with enough space that didn’t totally wipe out another activity,” Bergmann said. “I think the administration really is concerned and putting their best foot forward to solve the problem, but it’s a hard solve...
...film's plot is as streamlined as its combat. Zatoichi (Kitano) wanders into a village beset by gangs, one of which has hired a lethal samurai (Tadanobu Asano) to wipe out its enemies. Meanwhile, a geisha assassin and her brother, a female impersonator, seek revenge on the criminals who slaughtered their family. Zatoichi ends up in the middle. This is a film designed to get to the payoff as fast as possible, and that payoff is bloodier than a hematology convention. Hyperviolence is not new to the Zatoichi oeuvre, but Kitano does Katsu one, two or 11 better. To Kitano...