Word: smotheration
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...Crimson defense could not smother Dartmouth's explosive squad, which has had its back to the ECAC wall several times already this season. Freshman Rick Racic rushed from center ice and scored at 12:01 of the third, to draw his squad within one and start the Big Green adrenaline going...
These are the men who make up the meanest front four in football, a half ton of trouble for any offense. Moving like a band of marauding behemoths (average size 6 ft. 4 in., 260 lbs.), they smother runners at the line of scrimmage, flatten passers, and send offensive linemen into disarray. "There are some great lines in the league," says Washington Redskins Head Coach George Allen, architect of one himself, "but the edge has to go to Pittsburgh. They put fear in the heart of a passer...
Epstein's main objection to the press is that journalists are overanxious to root out government duplicity, Yet his own establishment bias colors his presentation as clearly as the journalists' desire to create issues colors theirs, and Epstein ends up looking like an apologist for Agnew's desire to smother the "effete intellectual snobs" of the media. The press may not be able to give the whole story. But the fact that journalists do consider themselves "active pursuers of the truth"--a role that Epstein thinks plausible only for unbiased social scientists--rather than "agents for others who desire...
...that psychiatry seems less and less interested in helping homosexuals go straight is that so few of them want to, and it is no longer widely seen as the enlightened thing to do. Another reason is that the causes of homosexuality are notoriously obscure. The familiar late-Freudian explanations ("Smother mother," weak or hostile father) fit many male homosexuals?but by no means all. Though some argue that they "were born this way," so far, attempts to find a biological or genetic cause of homosexuality have failed...
...more resounding than ever. At Baltimore's Fort McHenry, where Francis Scott Key wrote the national anthem in 1814, President Ford said that in America's third century, "quality and permanence should be the measurements of our lives" and "mass production, mass education, mass population must not smother individual expression." Surveying the U.S. as it entered its 200th year, the President found "a free government that checks and balances its own excesses, and a free economic system that corrects its own errors, given the courage and constructive cooperation of a free and enlightened citizenry." In Stavanger, Norway...