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Word: wipeout (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last year was an unmitigated disaster for the Crimson, as ferocious Big Red linebacker Mitch Lee sparked a 28-0 wipeout in Ithaca, N.Y. The year before was even worse--Harvard choked away a sure win on two wild snaps over punter Alan Hall's head for safeties...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: EYES ON THE PRIZE | 10/6/1990 | See Source »

...Jane Scovell (Simon & Schuster; $19.95). What starts out as another sad story of anxiety and alcohol abuse by the wife of a public official eventually turns into a moving saga of courage as the author struggles to come back from a defeat far more humiliating than her husband's wipeout at the polls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 1, 1990 | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...Jane Scovell (Simon & Schuster; $19.95). What starts out as another sad story of anxiety and alcohol abuse by the wife of a public official eventually turns into a moving saga of courage as the author struggles to come back from a defeat far more humiliating than her husband's wipeout at the polls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Sep. 24, 1990 | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

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