Word: extinguishing
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...privileged section of town high above the slums, the thousands of radios and speakers crashing out reggae music far below can be heard. The reggae, these whites sense, is the martial anthem of the trapped lower class, and as it drowns their elevated residences, so will the poor someday extinguish their dominion...
...time to extinguish the perpetual flame and stop worshiping false gods...
These are the politer ploys in what has become a rather uncivil war. Fighting fire with ire, bumper stickers declaim: KISSING A SMOKER IS LIKE LICKING A DIRTY ASHTRAY. A bellicose lapel button declares: SMOKERS STINK. Since slogans do not extinguish cigarettes, many antis become vigilantes. A scourge at some business conventions these days is a self-appointed enforcer who goes around plucking butts from smokers' mouths. One vigilante tactic: when a fellow guest lights up after dinner, an antismoker dunks his hand in the smoker's water glass. "What the...!" expostulates the smoker...
...participants expect that nuclear war will strike as a direct result of bombs spreading around the world like an "epidemic disease"; that no current disarmament policy can curb the spread; and that a quasi-dictatorial world government may be the only way to extinguish all risks of war. The proliferation of "peaceful" nuclear power only aggravates the danger because, as Rathjens writes, "by the end of the century there will be several thousand reactors around the world, each producing enough material to build a weapon a week...
Pyromania is the irresistible urge to set fires. There is no comparable term for the irresistible urge to extinguish them. Whatever that mania is called, New York City Fireman Dennis Smith, 35, has it in its most extreme form. In Smith's view, where there is fire there is always smoke-and it is his sworn duty to drown the flames and clear the air. As a zealous fire fighter, he has been taking care of urban conflagrations for twelve years. To dissipate the clouds of rumor and misinformation, he wrote Report from Engine Co. 82, a bestselling documentary...