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Word: smothered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feet to prevent a goal. Arico followed by tackling the ball away from Montalbano for another breakaway, but rifled the ball wide. Arico threatened once again minutes later when she found herself open in the Crimson penalty area, but Reilly charged 15 yards out of the net to smother yet another shot...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Women Booters Topped by UConn, 2-0 | 10/13/1989 | See Source »

...carbon dioxide dumped into the atmosphere as a result of all this activity traces a wobbly rising line that gets steeper and steeper with time. Sometime in the next 50 years, say climatologists, all that carbon dioxide, trapping the sun's heat like a greenhouse, could begin to smother the planet, raising temperatures, turning farmland to desert, swelling oceans anywhere from four feet to 20 feet. Goodbye Venice, goodbye Bangladesh. Goodbye to millions of species of animals, insects and plants that haven't already succumbed to acid rain, ultraviolet radiation leaking through the damaged ozone layer, spreading toxic wastes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Fear in A Handful of Numbers | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

Next, Lions running back Solomon Johnson helplessly watches his fumble roll into the Columbia end zone, where Captain Greg Gicewicz scurries to smother the ball for another Harvard...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Anything Can Happen: Harvard Goes All the Way in '89 | 9/15/1989 | See Source »

Next, Lions running back Solomon Johnson helplessly watches his fumble roll into the Columbia end zone, where Captain Greg Gicewicz scurries to smother the ball for another Harvard...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Anything Can Happen: Harvard Goes All the Way in '89 | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

Next, Lions running back Solomon Johnson helplessly watches his fumble roll into the Columbia end zone, where Captain Greg Gicewicz scurries to smother the ball for another Harvard...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Anything Can Happen: Harvard Goes All the Way in '89 | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

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