Word: wiping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviets would likely respond by putting their land-based missiles on tracks, affording them greater protection. This predictable Soviet response to the MX would seem to negate whatever value it has as a weapon for effective limited counter-force; if the MX is invulnerable, it would be unable to wipe out similarly mobile Soviet missiles and therefore be useless to develop. If, on the other hand, Soviet mobile missiles could be destroyed by accurate, high-yield weapons, then the MX itself would be vulnerable to a first-strike, eliminating its main selling point...
...system and indicated that it would step up research on a satellite killer to counter Soviet advances in that sphere (see following story). The mobile missile, called M-X (for "missile experimental"), would replace the Minuteman in a decade; by then the Soviets would presumably have the means to wipe out the Minuteman's fixed underground silos. The MX, at a total cost of at least $40 billion, could be moved rapidly along tracks ten to twelve miles long to escape detection and attack...
Last week Defense Secretary Harold Brown confirmed what defense experts have long suspected: the Soviets have developed a "hunter-killer" satellite, straight from Star Wars, that can track down orbiting U.S. spacecraft - and wipe them out. Said Brown: "The Soviets have an operational capability" to destroy "some" American satellites and have thus raised at least the possibility of a Soviet-U.S. space war. Added Brown: "That is somewhat troublesome...
...different ways, constructivism aspired to become the last universal style. Its victory would bring the history of art to an end and accomplish the millennium. The constructivist vision was art's analogue to the reigning fantasy of Marxism: the dictatorship of the proletariat. Its ideal order would wipe out nostalgia for older styles and set up a "permanent revolution" of design. Alas for the designers, this did not happen. Most of the triumphs of constructivism survived in the fictional space of painting or sculpture, theater or typography. As soon as ideal form moved into the real world of design...
...Snark.* Worse, as a Darwinian, London got his theories of evolution all mixed up with his notions of Nordic supremacy. The white man, he insisted, could stand the cold better than the Indian could, and in the Jack Johnson-Jim Jeffries fight of 1910 he rooted for Jeffries to "wipe the golden smile off the nigger's face...