Word: smothered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor faced bleak, uncertain months before the 1950 elections.* The leaders did not smother criticism from the delegates; they simply prevented any resolution from reaching the floor which could not command a resounding vote in favor. Fiery Minister of Health Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan did not denounce the opponents of full-speed nationalization. He seemed to have moved into the moderate camp of House Leader Herbert Morrison. What Bevan and Morrison asked the delegates for, and got, was a mandate to adjust the speed of nationalization to the economic and political weather ahead...
Setting this speech to music might have distracted attention from the message, so the Russians wisely did not try. Kazimir and Ludviga return home to the People's Democracy, leaving the Dollar Princess to smother in her gold. Kuder, for his part, decides to buy up a few votes and run for the Senate on the Democratic ticket. "Broadway," he remarks, "will be happy though amazed...
...opposition has already made some inroads on the Rankin bill here and there; yet the House failed two days ago in an attempt to block veterans of World War II from the benefits. The Senate may be able to slice further into Rankin's proposal or even smother it in a committee. But the chances that Mr. Rankin can pry something substantial out of Congress seem about as reasonable as the chances that he can be blocked. Even if he is only partially successful, there would be less money for housing, social security, and other items that are necessary...
...five-and six-man combinations in which Armstrong has worked much of his life, he has had to earn that kind of praise-and without the carefully arranged six-and eight-horn brass choirs of the big bands to smother sour notes for him. Playing without written arrangements, bending the melody around on his own, then blending in with the others when the clarinet or trombone soars off on the lead, Louis has wrung raves even from longer-haired critics. The New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson once said that Louis' style of improvisation made...
...simply inhale as slowly as I possibly can -until I feel that I will smother in the process from lack of oxygen-then exhale in the same manner, very, very slowly. I can do this a couple of times and my hiccups are gone...