Word: smothered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looking, like millions of men in the paying public. But American audiences are now discovering what the British knew two decades ago. "He was known as Cuddly Dudley then," says Humorist Peter Cook, who collaborated with Moore through much of his career. "Whether women wanted to mother him or smother him, I don't know...
...kind, is anathema to Mexican leaders. The U.S. infusion of cash that averted Mexican bankruptcy last summer, for example, was arranged with a minimum of fanfare and rhetoric. Says a Washington-based expert on Mexico: "The most important thing we can do for De la Madrid is not to smother him in our embrace...
...beyond being stage-struck; and most manuscripts are either plodding, sentimental TV problem plays, or blank-verse behemoths that would make Milton blanch. The latter are occasionally built on legitimate dramatic impulses, but the authors have no theatre sense, no conception of how to hold the stage, and they smother their ideas with embarrassing language and elephantine pretensions. Many of these playwrights have nobly sacrificed law school, television or movies for Art: they trumpet their martyrdom and expect artistic and literary directors to coddle and nurture them regardless of their talent...
Following the ensuing Harvard kickoff. Endicott smother-tackled the Princeton team captain just as he received the ball, allowing Harvard to advance ten yards before knocking the ball forward...
...still remember the dim and faded glory of the English country house, but for most of us this book of photographs will have to do. In fact, it does very nicely, with just enough text by Author Christopher Simon Sykes to explain the pictures but not enough to smother them with sociology...