Word: smothered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oppose groups attempting to discredit them." But the workers, he went on, must go forward with the country, obey the laws, learn discipline, above all cooperate with the Government. Scarcely skin-deep under the rhetoric was the threat that Avila Camacho would allow no actions of labor to smother the boomlet in Mexican business that has popped since his inauguration. But surprisingly enough the conservative press saw in the speech a move to the left on the President's part...
...visitors were tall and rangy and able to smother any ambitious Crimson hoopman who tried to work the ball in close to the Yale basket. As a result, Harvard had to confine itself to pot shots from far out on the floor or hurried one-handers from bad angles. Harvard took 78 shots to Yale's 68 during the course of the evening but was never able to get the Blues on the run and force them into committing fouls. Four chances from the foul line were all that the Crimson had to show for the entire game, while...
...simplest German incendiaries weigh about two pounds and are filled with thermite. There are four methods of putting them out. The first method is to smother them with the tin tops of garbage cans. But there are seldom enough covers for all the bombs, so everybody is now familiar with the second method, which is to smother them with sand and then spray them with a hand pump attached to a water bucket. A third fairly effective method for whiskey drinkers is to spray the bomb with a soda-water siphon. Fourth and most dangerous method, about to be demonstrated...
...sang blindly for a rotten-toothed, dragglemaned lion that wants to smother the world with the weight of its years, to save itself from the cubs it has raised in the mines of the North and the mills of Manchester. But your duty is here, to lay the old Bald-Head quietly to rest, to deck its young with bright feathers and make strong their wings for flight. Mare Jaffe...
With Italy's oversea supply line to Africa more vulnerable than ever after Taranto, all these actions suggested the beginning of a British effort to smother Italy before Germany can help her out in Greece or anywhere else...