Word: extinguish
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...SMOG of international political idiocy descends upon the Los Angeles Olympics, cries have arisen that it's time to extinguish. Baron de Coubertin's torch once and for all. Such arguments strike an increasingly responsive chord, indeed, the last Games to be left unscathed by the non-athletic tug of war between rival states took place in 1968. Since then, we've seen the massacre of 11 Israelis in Munich, the African boycott of Montreal, the U.S. no-show in Moscow, and now, the big nyet from Chernenko and Co. Nor do prospects for the future look good...
Most of the damage resulted from fire fighters breaking through an outside wall to extinguish the flames, house maintenance officials said. The damaged office was boarded shut and was not open to inspection yesterday...
...faucets and hoses in his house, then filed with the fire still miles away. Although the firestorm did not engulf his home, a burning cinder carried on the wind came through an open window, and all the water in his basins did nothing. With no one there to extinguish the spark, his house was gutted. And his open faucets so dropped the water pressure that when Mr. Forest climbed on his roof-hose in hand to battle the flames, no water would come out. His house burned to the ground before I got home...
...were not able to extinguish the flames, but we diverted them from the house. Then there was nothing to do but wait...
...spirit of commerce has a tendency to soften the manners of men, and to extinguish those inflammable humours which have so often kindled into...