Word: wipe
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...torn province of Kosovo, where she was sold for a second time to two burly Albanian bar owners named Nazif and Luli. They forced her to have sex with as many as four clients a night. "One of them would hit me, then give me something to wipe my tears with and lead me across the floor to a client, smiling," Tatiana recalls. "It was impossible to disobey." Under constant supervision, even in the bathroom, she once asked a foreign client, a Swiss consultant, for help. The man offered the bar owner $5,000 for Tatiana's freedom...
Lift your napkin, wipe your chin, and above all, protect your pants...
When the new Harvard president takes office, ideally the "candidate" who has been a member of the Harvard community from its "pre-Core" days to the present, we advise him or her not to wipe clean the undergraduate curricular slate but rather to inventory the strengths and successes of the current Core program, in theory and in practice, and to build upon them. The Core is an indispensable feature of the Harvard undergraduate experience and must be preserved...
...pharmaceutical firms see local manufacture and so-called parallel imports--where other countries buy the copycat generics instead of the brand name--as a threat they are battling to wipe out. They feel that they alone should not have to pick up the tab for Africa. They want to stanch drug pirates who might make worthless fakes or flood drugs onto the black market. And they fear that making AIDS therapies cheaper for Africans will prompt lucrative Western markets to demand lower prices as well...
...Omen An asteroid large enough to wipe out France came within 800,000 km of hitting Earth?and was spotted by astronomers only days before it hurtled past...