Word: smothered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada, as in the U.S., there was too much money and too little goods. The real cure for inflation was production and more production. Only an outpouring of goods could smother soaring prices and bring them tumbling down. But the goods had to be made first. That was Canada's No.1 job on the home front. Cried Gordon longingly last week: "Give me full production from the U.S. and Canada for the next ten or twelve months, and goddammit I'm not a bit afraid...
...first two meets, on April 20 and 27, saw the Mikkolamen smother first Tufts and Connecticut, and then Rhode Island and Holy Cross. By grabbing most of the win, place, and show monies, the Crimson copped 216 1/6 of a possible 325 points for the two contests. The Fisher boys, Jack and Willo, started their hegemony over the weight events, finishing one-two and two-one in the hammer throw on the two successive Saturdays. Jack Hunter, high and low hurdle artist, was elected captain just after the first meet...
...fire developing around a radiator in Sever 4 Wednesday drew a lunchtime crowd of 500 students who watched 11 Cambridge fire department vehicles and 30 firemen smother the small blaze. The fire was listed as of "undetermined origin" and damage was estimated at around $35. Before the situation was under control, heat from the conflagration and set off one automatic sprinkler in the basement below...
...Assemblymen did not vote to have M. de Gaulle serve as President of the Government until the constitution of the Fourth Republic is drafted. Extreme Rightist Louis Dumat abstained from voting: "I am against the Communists. The Communist Party, in hugging De Gaulle to its breast, will try to smother him tomorrow...
...emplaned for Washington and his new job as Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America, he let off a final blast at Strong Man Peron: "The voice of liberty is making itself heard in this country and I am not of the belief that anyone will be able to smother it." The crowd of Argentines at the airport cheered, shouted "Libertad! Libertad...