But the title of this often touching memoir refers equally to the vast changes, moral and technological, that have obliterated the way of life the author remembers here.
Belichick said afterward that slowing the game down was not working, so the Patriots returned to the formula that had obliterated earlier opponents: racing to score as many points as possible.
Rebel commanders on the ground appeared to have concluded that Colonel Qaddafi, after months of NATO bombing that had obliterated almost everything above ground in the compound, had retreated into a vast underground complex beneath the ruins — a last-ditch refuge similar to those that Mr. Hussein had underneath several of his Baghdad palaces.
"Did you see that Javelin on CNN?" Richard Fong, a senior research scientist for warheads, asked his colleagues last week, referring to a shoulder-fired weapon developed by the Army that had obliterated its target to the extent that it was unclear just what kind of vehicle it had been.
Andy Goode scored three penalties for Leicester but they were unable to repeat the form that had obliterated Gloucester in the final of the Guinness Premiership eight days earlier in the same stadium, a result that made Leicester England's champion club.
More surprisingly still, their handsome brick town houses, high and narrow, with elegant doorways and weaving workshops in the attics, were not swept away in any of the tides of 19th- and 20th-century rebuilding that have obliterated so much in both the City and the East End.
However, a plain chest X-ray revealed a stomach gas bubble that had obliterated the cardiac silhouette within the mediastinum.
I was in denial when he told me he was about to become a baby daddy, and bore resentment towards the fetus that had obliterated my chances for a summer romance.
He's probably right and certainly right to say that technology has obliterated the boundaries of production so that an iPad emerging from China at a cost of $178£11010) actually contains parts from all over the world and more content from the US – $10 worth – than from China itself ($6) where the parts are assembled.
