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They could wreck the fragile goodwill Ike had built with the Soviet leader.

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While saving money isn’t always easy, it is straightforward; you have years to accumulate wealth, and small mistakes made along the way won’t necessarily wreck your chances of long-term success.

Of his farm, he said: "It's all wrecked. They all destroyed."

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"But once it's moving, it's like the train is racing downhill, impossible to stop. Ending it requires something dramatic -- basically, a train wreck."

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The accusations of being unclean and the “nappy wig” comment are real classics among those that white girls use to paint Black women as unattractive, undesirable wrecks.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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