Word: extinguish
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...York threatened--but could not produce--against southpaw Gura. With men on first and third, and two out in the seventh, Gura forced Reggie Jackson to bounce to second to extinguish a Yankee threat...
...bright spots for the Crimson, as Adam Beren had already been wasted by Princeton number five Steve Feinberg, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2. The doubles opened with more of the same, as Pompan and Sands succumbed quickly to Lapidus and Shiras, 6-1, 6-4, to extinguish the last Crimson hopes of a team victory...
...lead when Richie Hebner singled home Lou Whitaker in the top half of the first inning. Jason Thompson and Champ Summers then reached Boston starter Dennis Eckersley for walks to load the bases, but the righthander forced Lance Parrish to ground to second baseman Jerry Remy to extinguish the threat...
...while heading for the door because otherwise you are going to die, and dropped-dead on the floor you will not make a cosmetically fetching corpse. But you stop first and buy a package of mints, half-believing that your exhalation of sweet, clear breath will be sufficient to extinguish the world, or at least Brattle Street...
...interior of Cambodia returned with searing eyewitness accounts of mass starvation. Three U.S. Senators, the first American officials to visit the Cambodian capital of Phnom-Penh since the fall of Lon Nol, testified before Edward Kennedy's Senate Judiciary Committee that famine and disease threatened to extinguish the entire Cambodian people. Republican John Danforth of Missouri said he and his colleagues had visited camps in Thailand that were simply "ground with people strewn over it." Danforth argued that "hundreds of thousands of people [are] at death's door. We saw people who couldn't walk 100 yards." Said Democrat James...