Word: extinguisher
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...many an officer of the First Division in Korea, actual service in the line often seemed less important than training exercises the division was running along the coast every time it managed to wheedle enough ships from the Navy: battalion-size assault landings calculated to extinguish the defensive heresies picked up in combat, and to remind troops of the appetite for headlong attack expected of them in their kind of war. The discouraging stalemates and attrition of Korea, in a word, had only whetted the most gleaming weapon the Marine Corps carries when it is panoplied for war: the quietly...
Firemen and student bunkers attempted to extinguish the flames with water, whereupon a quart of hydrochloric said, a half pound of metalic sodium, two and a half pounds of lithium bromide, and five gallons of faming sulfuric acid exploded...
...cheers of spectators, the three with milkshakes, a store broom, and a ladder proceeded to extinguish the burning awning...
Lewis and his roommates tried to extinguish the blazing couch but had to leave the job to the horde of firemen who swarmed over the room with axes, flashlights, and a hose. Local urchins assumed salvage rights at 7:20 a.m. when firemen heaved the couch out the window...
...Alamos and its aftermath left him with "a legacy of concern." Two years later Oppenheimer told his fellow physicists that their weapon had "dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose...