Word: wipeout
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...Communist wipeout threatened to shatter the delicate power-sharing agreement that the party and Solidarity negotiated earlier this year. Not only was there a fear of backlash from angry Communist hard-liners opposed to compromise, but there was also a serious question of how the country could be governed when its ruling party had been overwhelmingly rejected by the electorate...
That, by the reckoning of Mondale's aides, put their boss over the top. He had gone into the final day of primaries just 225 short of a convention delegate majority. He had picked up a respectable 201 delegates on the with sey's wipeout of Hart partly offsetting the California defeat. The time difference from the Pacific Coast had blunted the impact of California. Most TV viewers had gone to bed, like Mondale, with the expectation that the nomination fight was over. In much of the U.S., the next day's morning newspapers conveyed the same impression. Mondale...
...past four years, the result of head injuries or collision with automobiles. The major causes of all those accidents are not too surprising: inexperience (37% occur in the first week of skateboard use) and "environmental conditions"-potholes, for instance. As a precaution against major and minor forms of wipeout, the commission is strongly urging the wearing of safety gear, such as helmets, kneepads and athletic shoes. Safe skateboarding, it seems, does not lend itself to hanging...
...determine just how long the erasure was? When the subpoena for this entire tape seemed quite clear to later lawyers, why did Nixon and Buzhardt insist at first that it applied only to the Ehrlichman portion? Was this claim part of an intended cover-up of the Haldeman conversation wipeout...
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