Word: smotheration
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...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...
...begins to get a flow of corpses from two lodginghouse keepers in the most wretched part of the city. At first, the two bully boys, Fallon and Broom, simply smother their lodgers in their beds. Later, the victims are made drunk and done away with as was young Jennie Bailey, the prostitute...
...Sarnoff Commission's recommendations were the outcome of four months of bitter experience in what the report called "the Pentagon jungle." Established by Harry Truman's Defense Secretary Robert Abercrombie Lovett last October, the commission soon reached the conclusion that the armed services were trying to smother it with irrelevant data. Said Sarnoff: "The commission has received tons of information and not an ounce of interpretation . . . Cooperation from the services boils down to furnishing the commission with voluminous, lengthy and complicated documents . . . which leave the reader with a greater sense of bewilderment than he had before . . ." With suspicious...