Word: smothered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...begins to get a flow of corpses from two lodginghouse keepers in the most wretched part of the city. At first, the two bully boys, Fallon and Broom, simply smother their lodgers in their beds. Later, the victims are made drunk and done away with as was young Jennie Bailey, the prostitute...
...Sarnoff Commission's recommendations were the outcome of four months of bitter experience in what the report called "the Pentagon jungle." Established by Harry Truman's Defense Secretary Robert Abercrombie Lovett last October, the commission soon reached the conclusion that the armed services were trying to smother it with irrelevant data. Said Sarnoff: "The commission has received tons of information and not an ounce of interpretation . . . Cooperation from the services boils down to furnishing the commission with voluminous, lengthy and complicated documents . . . which leave the reader with a greater sense of bewilderment than he had before . . ." With suspicious...
However, certain pitfalls await any clergyman, regardless of stature, who steps into active direction of a secular institution. Since he will be a Protestant, he must realize that many Catholic and Jewish students will have already pitched one strike past him. Thus, he will have to do more than smother the natural desire of any clergyman to propagate the creed he has been trained in. He must go out of his way to assure that any "religious guidance" he dispenses represents the lowest common denominator of credo--in fact, no more than the same social gospel PBH has represented...
...snooty bank clerks. But suddenly the god Jupiter comes down and offers Poindexter some advice. "Be wisely selfish," says Jupiter, "catch your flies with sugar." So Poindexter suppresses his natural reactions to various people, fixes a blank grin of confidence on his face, and composes adulatory remarks to smother everyone with. He gets what he wants from others by feigning interest in their problems and remaining inwardly aloof and calculating. The film teaches that in this way we can all "cash in at the bank of human relations and win sound dividends...
Hubbard knocked in a loose puck in the first minute of the final period after Greeley had soloed in, crashing into the goalie who came out of the net. Wheeler counted again at 5:48 for Brown when Crimson goalie Brad Richardson came way out of the cage to smother a loose puck, but let it get away. Clasby ended the scoring on a neat solo halfway through the period, faking Copp out, and tucking it in behind...