Word: extinguish
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...They don't work, or have insufficient supplies, or they ask for, excuse me, crazy prices." Abruptly calling off his search, Vasily got up to make tea. He switched on the hot plate, shorting it out and starting a small fire near the sink. As his wife rose to extinguish it, the cosmonaut grew ever more morose...
College sports are of course forgivable. When Kyle Snowden leaves, we will still root for Harvard basketball. Carm Cozza's departure will probably not extinguish the last of the Yale diehards. Most of the people you find in Blodgett Pool cheering on the water polo team have an emotional stake in the game from some personal link to Harvard...
...clues are tantalizing. In some research centers, investigators are studying an area at the tip of chromosomes that appears to shorten, fuselike, as we grow older. Extinguish the chemical fire that consumes the fuse, and you might be able to bring aging to a halt. Elsewhere, scientists are studying how the waste produced when a cell consumes food can contaminate its innards, a process that can lead to the body-wide breakdowns we associate with aging. Clean up the cells, and you should be able to buck up the entire organism. Still elsewhere, geneticists are beginning to map the very...
...could sympathize with his opinion of drinking, but his reasons for swimming and smoking (he said he would smoke while swimming if the pool's water didn't extinguish his cigarettes) made little sense. I responded by asking him how he could smoke given all of the links between smoking and cancer, heart disease and lung disease...
...girls on the U.S. tennis team, living and reveling in the Olympic Village, catching as many events as she can. Evans, in her last Olympics, did the laundry for Beard, in her first. Nothing, not the Atlanta Olympic committee, not commercialism, not even a bomb, can extinguish the Olympic ideal. Some of the most heated matches in these Games--boxing, baseball, volleyball--will be between Cuba and the U.S. Yet the other night, after Jeff Rouse of the U.S. defeated two Cubans, Rodolfo Falcon Cabrera and Neisser Bent, in the 100-m backstroke, Cabrera took his seat at the press...