Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson first showed how useless the IRA title was by stopping in Wisconsin to wipe out the Badgers twice--first on a shortened 1500-meter course, and the next day on a 2000-meter Lake Mendota...
...sheer, giddy, lustful triumph, a day to wipe out memories of all the decades of defeat. Down Broad and Chestnut streets wound the motorcade last week while some 2 million zealots, nearly half the population of metropolitan Philadelphia, screamed with delight, threw confetti and fought with sweating cops to get close to their heroes. The Philadelphia Flyers had just won the Stanley Cup, symbol of supremacy in pro hockey, by destroying the Boston Bruins with un-Quakerlike ferocity, and the city had spontaneously taken Monday off to celebrate...
...also did my best to resist the counsel of those who can't stop shouting "We'll destroy our enemies! We'll wipe them out!" It requires considerable inner maturity and a well-developed understanding of the world not only to grasp the narrow bureaucratic aspects of defense policy, but also to see things in the broader perspective...
...would suffer less from the oil squeeze than other countries, and because they were impressed by the fact that two painful dollar devaluations had swung the U.S. trade balance back into the black. The turnaround proved shortlived; in recent months the dollar's value has sunk enough to wipe out almost all the gains posted during the fuel crisis...
Prouder of myself than ever before, I saluted Asher and ran all the way home to tell my mother the good news. I did not wipe the spray off my face until dinner...