Word: extinguish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...destiny of America-we built it for two centuries without wages, we made cotton king, we built our homes and homes for our masters and suffered injustice and humiliation, but out of a bottomless vitality continued to live and grow. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not extinguish our existence, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We feel that we are the conscience of America-we are its troubled soul...
...much of his dialogue resembles an old Smith & Dale vaudeville sketch ("Why can't you marry me?" "Because you're crazy." "Why am I crazy?" "Because you want to marry me"). But an overdose of comic non sequitur and an almost experimental formlessness are not enough to extinguish the real fire of Catch...
...everyone realizes that the United States cannot reserve the right to intervene in Cuba and at the same time take any strong exception to Soviet aid to the Pathet Lao. It is hardly possible, as Khruschev's Cuban note said, to handle matters in such a way as to extinguish a conflagration in one area only to kindle fires in another. Cuba and Laos are parallel enough to reveal why it is in Khruschev's interest to move patiently; but by the same token, it is in the West's interest to drive as quickly...
Emboldened by his victory, Hoffa last week asked the Appeals Court for permission to call a Teamsters convention early next year. Order of business: to re-elect Hoffa as full-fledged president and thus extinguish the board of monitors. In fact, the monitors were headless and unable to function, and resourceful Jimmy Hoffa was riding high and wide, planted more firmly than ever in the driver's seat of the nation's biggest union...
...would take more than a covering of dirt to extinguish the memory of Boris Pasternak in the Russian land he loved so much that "every line of her had gone to the very bottom of his soul...