AppleScript - Delete specific words in a Pages document?

Hi All,
What would be an AppleScript to find and delete words in the whole document...
I want to delete all words such as " red " and " orange ".
Thanks in advanced

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What would be the line to add/modified at the top?
Thanks in advance...
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What would be the line to add/modified at the top?
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tell application "Pages"
    activate
    tell application "System Events" to set theOpenWindows to windows of process "Pages" whose subrole is "AXStandardWindow"
    repeat with thisWindow in theOpenWindows
        tell application "System Events" to tell thisWindow to perform action "AXRaise"
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            -- ENTER YOUR CODE HERE
        end tell
    end repeat
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