Word: extinguish
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This is a test for Harvard University; whether or not it will light the way in these sometimes dark times, or extinguish Hope's flame! So that a community of many can fix what in the past only a few were called on or allowed to do. --Andrew James Kluttz...
...classic counter-oppo fashion, Wilson hoped to extinguish the story quickly by making amends fast, rushing the Treasury a check for back taxes and late penalties. Though the story was embarrassing, its brief arc pleased campaign aides. By week's end Wilson's new campaign manager, Craig Fuller, was praising his boss for bravely tackling the issue "head...
...movie, the probe was sent to extinguish the star in order to change the magnitude of its gravitational pull, graduate movie-goers said...
After intermission, Yoo prefaced the Zwilich by a brief and humorous lecture, citing passages with the aid of the orchestra. The 1984 work rang a bit shallow, however; its influences carefully trace the development of music in the first half of this century and extinguish any hope of originality...
...explain, to themselves and others, what it is about their work that proves so attractive and sometimes so fatal. On the playing field of the Glenwood Springs Middle School, fresh crews assembled the day after the blowup, waiting to relieve those who were still trying to extinguish the deadly Storm King fire. John Murray, boss of the Chief Mountain Hotshots, a Blackfoot Indian contingent out of Browning, Montana, mused, "The fire gets in your blood. You want to seek out danger and defeat...