Word: smothered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second goal was scored when left wing Tom Little got around the Crimson fullbacks and made a perfect cross to Hall in the goal mouth. Craven tried to smother the ball, but he slipped and fell two feet from the ball. Hall also slipped, but while the ball remained motionless recovered in time to hit the empty cage...
...late as 1945, Infant Care expressed fear that babies might smother in their cribs. Now it notes that this is most unusual: sudden deaths are generally the result of a runaway infection...
...must preach a social gospel, but we must first of all preach the Word . . . To call the wrath of God a metaphor, to smoothly rationalize Hell, to smother the Cross in sentimentality is to play havoc with Christianity; you may have a religion left, but it is not the religion of the New Testament...
...someone else. When "the flap is on," a process which can be set off by as little as a Congressman's letter or a sudden demand from a Chief of Staff, he responds by producing a protective cloud of paper in which he can safely disappear in a smother of initials and information copies...
With its overwhelming majority in Parliament, Canada's Liberal government can quickly smother discussion of any embarrassing subject. That seemed to be the Liberal strategy last week when the Tory opposition again raised the question of the Ming Sung Industrial Co. Flying the Canadian flag, Ming Sung's five ships sail regularly from Hong Kong and Macao to Communist China, despite Canada's support of the United Nations' strategic embargo against the Chinese Reds...