Word: smother
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talked about the goodness of God, never His wrath. "Why," he asked in one sermon, "should we attribute to God the capital sin of Anger?" He complained that there were too many flowers in the church: "When you smother the altar in flowers you take away from its original beauty." He even objected to feast-day processions. "I am deeply shocked," he wrote his superiors, "by the neopaganism of the masses." Father Dubois did not believe in collections, either, never pleaded for money to buy a new altar cloth or fix the roof, and packed his eight Sunday services with...
...worked out when she made lunch for Artist Pablo Picasso. He "exclaimed at its beauty" and modestly protested that it should have been created in honor of Matisse instead. In Palma de Mallorca, a French cook almost started a riot in the market place by showing Alice how to smother pigeons (the cook said it made them fuller and tastier). The information came in handy when Alice fixed some braised pigeons on croutons for Gertrude, using six "sweet young corpses" choked by her own hands. Her Frangipani Tart (decorated with homemade French and American flags) was the dessert following...
...sooner or later discover sex for themselves . . . but this cruel violence is something else. It is by no means an essential part of us. No doubt there is in us the germ of it, a spark of savagery, especially in youth. One of the aims of civilisation is to smother that spark . . . But here in this popular fiction the whole civilised trend is being carefully reversed...
...presence of sophomore Bill Cleary, nor the varsity's three-line depth, nor the sensational play of defensemen Jeff Coolidge and Ed Mikonich could match the sustained class of the Eagles. The win was Kelley's 201st in his 19-year career on the Heights, and served to smother, completely smother, any Crimson pretensions to another western trip...
...throwback to the days of the genuine triple-threat back; his ability to pass from a running play is a constant threat to the opposition, and his booming kicks travel so high and far that even the slowest-footed Notre Dame lineman can get downfield to smother the receiver. This year Notre Dame's opponents. ' returning Lattner's punts, have averaged less than...