Word: wipe
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Although accustomed to the outdoors, the statue finds protection from the natural elements in an outer coating of paraffin wax. According to Manager of Administrative Operations Zachary M. Gingo ’98, the wax makes the statue easy to clean. “In most instances we can wipe off the substance (shaving cream, soap, food debris, etc.) with a rag,” he writes in an e-mail. “For urine, we wash the statue (as well as the area around the base) with a hose.” John Harvard gets attacked about once...
...hatred of Muslims has tempered (or at least been submerged). Rather than suggesting that the United States “invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity,” as she did a year ago, Coulter now believes that America will wipe out “70 percent” of global terrorism by invading Iraq alone...
...Gulf War, only a handful of planes could launch only a few guided missiles and accurate bombs at a time. Now virtually the entire armada of U.S. warplanes can dispatch such weapons. For the first time ever, a war can begin with one side able to wipe out, with near impunity, every key enemy building and other fixed target its intelligence has identified. Instead of F-117s buzzing Baghdad with a measly pair of 2,000-lb. laser-guided bombs, as in the 1991 war, the next conflict might start with B-2s over Iraq, each dropping...
...with wood. But can Lula manage Latin America's largest economy (and the world's ninth largest)? Though Wall Street's favorite sport right now is demonizing Lula - and his platform is, indeed, full of expensive, perhaps fiscally risky social programs - he insists that he's not out to wipe away the free-market reforms and fiscal discipline that won Brazil's current president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, so much international acclaim...
Hopefully, Daschle’s words will brush off any stigma Bush has carelessly attached to those willing to question the administration’s intention to wipe out Saddam Hussein’s regime, or his desire to create a Homeland Security Department that would be autocratically controlled by the president. Indeed, the majority leader’s words seem to have rallied some Democrats formerly disaffected by the quick, unquestioning passage of a resolution on war with Iraq that just a couple weeks ago seemed likely...