Word: wiping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...humane response to such pathetic displays of academic insecurity is to wipe their foaming mouths and then recommend professional help...
...soviet who spent six months in confinement: "Relations are still tense between us, but we talk a lot." Expressions of hatred toward Azerbaijan are the rule. "They had an earthquake in Baku recently," recounts an Armenian girl. "Too bad it didn't hit 20 on the Richter scale and wipe them...
...holes are another matter. Many of them are so large it would cost more than $100 million to fill them, which could, in some cases, wipe out the profits made from the mine. "Some people think the holes should be filled in," acknowledges Livermore. "But as a matter of public policy, what's the rationale for it? The only real reason to fill in a hole is that people don't like the looks...
...reasons having more to do with random events and petty frustration than with any rational calculus of relative evil and threat to the nation, the pit-faced Panamanian dictator is now U.S. Public Enemy No. 1. Our top foreign policy goal, for the moment, is to wipe him out. Nothing would add more to the nation's pursuit of happiness. Even those liberal Democrats who would want six months of hearings before responding to a nuclear attack are screaming for blood...
...sale will virtually wipe out Zenith's debt and enable the company to invest in new technologies, including high-definition television. While HDTV is probably a decade away, Zenith is developing flatter, sharper TV screens that may keep the company -- and the U.S. -- in the race with Asian manufacturers...