Word: extinguishing
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...potency to his daughter Tricia. He poured a bottle of it into a bowl and set it afire. To his horror the fire would not go out; the bowl burst and sent flaming mao-tai across the table top. The frantic combined efforts of the First Family managed to extinguish the fire just before a national tragedy occurred...
...there is economic liberty. The E.E.C. treaty concentrates not on a declaration of human rights but on the economics of the free society: it shall be based on consumer choice and fair competition, freer movement of capital and people. It is the only economic treaty to really underpin liberty. Extinguish free enterprise and you extinguish liberty...
...take low politics seriously--and to the Third World to recognize liberalism's capacity to fight back. In Moynihan's view, it was necessary to denounce each assault on democracy, no matter how indirect or symbolic, for implicit in each assault on our system was a campaign to extinguish democracy as an idea...
...fencers take note. If you yell fire too often the director knows you're heated up about nothing. Your temper, in fact, can only help extinguish your chances. Remaining cool through it all however, you will be able to do more in a glance than an army of screaming armchair directors...
...wrong turn, their low-pressure pumps failed to hose water as high as the third floor; flames were already licking at the roof. Worse, ladders extended only to the second floor. Finally deciding to fight the blaze from above, the soldiers climbed to the roof and managed to extinguish the flames after a 90-minute battle. Said an experienced fireman disgustedly watching the amateurish operation: "We could have done it in ten minutes...