Word: quenching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...salary for hard work well done, had it over Stryker "like a tent." His summation was a gem of logical courtroom oratory. By the way ... if Tom had needed help in his argument, he could have called on his brother (none other than "Fireman" Murphy, ex-Yankee pitcher) to quench Stryker's pyrotechnic palaver...
...Germans held an anti-Communist demonstration in Berlin (see INTERNATIONAL), Russian agents whistled up a Communist rally of 100,000 Germans to answer the challenge. Under these circumstances negotiations were impossible. The real danger was that Russia had started a fire which she might not be able to quench...
...trying to smuggle in a little Heavy Thought with the froth. What's worse, neither the comic nor dramatic possibilities of the clash between Tilly and Simon are fully exploited. In the end, the novel has no more sparkle than decarbonated soda water. But even flat soda can quench a summer day's thirst...
...another Czechoslovakia, and he will undoubtedly to able to prevent civil strife with American arms. If, on the other hand, the Democratic Front receives close to a majority of the votes, their exclusion from the new government would lead to civil war which the rightists would be unable to quench...
...better, getting by Chester Township, a hotbed of basketball on the Eel River in Wabash County, only to be humbled later in the day. In last week's semifinals, all the small-town schools (the smaller the town, the higher the fervor) were eliminated. It was enough to quench bonfire celebrations all over the rural districts, where farm boys spent most of their spare time, between milking and other chores, shooting basketballs through hoops on the barns...