Word: wiping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economically successful and politically active group, seem to exemplify the American work ethic and the ideological purity which conservative uphold as praiseworthy goals. Tolerance, a fundamental American concept, has been forgotten by a President who vows to thwart various Americans' attempts to secure their inalienable rights. President Reagan should wipe his slate clean and grant homosexuals what he promised the rest of American in 1980: A New Beginning...
...supporters of the Strategic Defense Initiative (S.D.I.) increasingly argue that a defense need not be perfect or even near perfect to be worth building. Their vision is of a system that would wipe out a high enough proportion of attacking warheads to shift the odds dramatically against a Soviet first strike's succeeding. According to this view, deterrence would not be transcended, as Reagan dreams, but it would be vastly strengthened...
open, Ward started to wipe out but managed to flick the puck into the empty net at the last moment...
...dogged by innuendoes linking her family to organized crime, and she did not hesitate to slug it out. When the tabloid New York Post reported that her parents had once been arrested on gambling charges, the furious Ferraro said Post Publisher Rupert Murdoch "doesn't have the worth to wipe the dirt from under my mother's shoes." Ferraro's own Roman Catholic Church attacked her pro-choice stand on abortion, but she insisted that the decision must be a woman's, not the state's. When heckled by antiabortion activists, she shot back with wisecracks learned on the streets...
...Ambassador mentioned only one of her antagonists by name: "I am sure Alexander Haig thought he was going to wipe me out in the first nine months," she said of the former Secretary of State. "He didn't." Her audience applauded. She called foreign policy a "particularly male bastion" and claimed that "there are lots of resistances still to young women in our diplomatic service...