Word: extinguisher
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Suez, their demands have caught fire at a time when Western opinion has decisively rejected old-fashioned imperialism, and when France herself lacks the power, and possibly the will, to extinguish revolt by force of arms...
...probably be dead. He organized a flamethrower school for junior officers so they could train new technicians as the division moved along. At one of the training sessions, a young captain spilled napalm on his uniform, which promptly burst into flame. Dean knocked him down in the dirt to extinguish the fire, and some of the flaming liquid spilled on his own leg. Dean was hospitalized, and for a while it looked as though he would miss his cherished dream of battle after all. But when the division embarked for Europe, Brigadier General Dean hobbled away from the hospital...
...often as the New York Post has. Said the minority: "We are compelled by every command of duty to brand this and every like threat to freedom of the press, from whatever source, as a peril to American freedom . . . Congressional interrogation such as [this], if frequently repeated, would extinguish, without passage of a single law, that free and unfettered reporting of events and comment thereon upon which the preservation of our liberties depends ... A press put to the frequent necessity of explaining its news and editorial policies to a United States Senator, armed with the full powers of the Government...
...election, absorbed the White House, obsessed the press and smothered discussion of other grave questions of the Coolidge-Hoover period. The yatter over Prohibition died with Repeal. In 1953, the responsible leaders of the U.S. will not get public discussion back on the most important issues until they extinguish the McCarthyism debate by an equivalent of Repeal. Since serious people can hardly believe that Communism influences the present Administration, much ground is already cut from under McCarthy's feet...
...implied admission that the U.S. has the hydrogen bomb, "man moves into a new era of destructive power, capable of creating explosions of a new order of magnitude, dwarfing the mushroom clouds of Hiroshima and Nagasaki . . . The war of the future would be one in which man could extinguish millions of lives at one blow, demolish the great cities of the world, wipe out the cultural achievements of the past-and destroy the very structure of civilization . . . Such a war is not a possible policy for rational men. We know this, but we dare not assume that others would...