Word: smothered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still very much alive, with coast-to-coast plans for teams in seven cities, was the ambitious young All-America Football Conference. But All-America's road looked none too smooth. Moving last week to smother any postwar competition, the long-established National Football League gave its Brooklyn Tigers (dispossessed of their Ebbets Field home) permission to switch to Yankee Stadium in 1946. This left All-America with only one hope in metropolitan New York: Brooklyn's Ebbets Field...
...Secure on the Home Front. The big, soft pillow used to smother the May-Bailey bill was another bill whipped up by West Virginia's New Dealing Senator Harley M. Kilgore, whose constituency is heavily weighted with labor votes, mostly United Mine Workers. The Kilgore measure would hand the manpower problem over to Paul V. McNutt's War Manpower Commission (which has fumbled it from the beginning). It would give neither WMC nor anyone else the authority needed in the crisis. Labor and management have come out for the Kilgore bill...
...member states in such wise, however, that each of them retains an equal right to its own sovereignty. . . . An essential point in any future international arrangement would be the formation of an organ for the maintenance of peace, of an organ invested by common consent with supreme power ... to smother in its germinal state any threat of isolated or collective aggression...
...malaria situation became a political issue last fortnight when Egyptian Government delegates in the Chamber of Deputies tried to smother bitter complaints by claiming that malaria has caused only 13,000 deaths. But even King Farouk knew better-he had visited the stricken land...
...Comets, an Aurora (Ill.) basketball team of 10-to 13-year-old boys, last week made basketballers' eyes pop. In a Y.M.C.A. tournament, they averaged a field goal every 27 seconds to smother another moppet five, the Fritzies, 106-to-1. Before experts could hail them as a wonder team of prodigies, the Comets next day plummeted to earth. Against another Y team of coevals, they lost...