Word: smotheration
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...animal-feed manufacturers. To develop new soybean products, Joyce hired Dr. Percy Julian, a Negro chemist from DePauw University. The choice was good; Julian was the first to mass-produce sex hormones from soybeans successfully, gained further fame in World War II by developing a fire-fighting foam to smother gasoline and oil fires...
Dartmouth's hockey team scored two goals in the first period and three more in the second to smother the varsity sextet, 5 to 1, on Hanover's Davis Rink Saturday. The loss was the Crimson's third straight...
...weeks ago, Roberto Rossellini's latest film, "The Miracle," was scheduled to come to Boston. Recent attacks on this film in New York however have caused its American distributors temporarily to withhold leases on the picture. These attacks are a direct attempt to smother the public's freedom of choice...
Except for some excellent art work and a fine bright cover, the rest of the Advocate shades off into mediocrity. There is another long anecdote about Europe by Hona Karmel called "The Old Ignacy." Her material is rich, but she has a nasty habit of letting her writing smother it; when Miss Karmel talks about coffee, she calls it a "black fragrant fluid." Andrew Zimmer's introspective and involved story of a boy who has lost his father, "Sideways to the Sun," topples of its own length. A section of Hall's introduction to the new Advocate Anthology is straight...
...anxious to be off for home and the hustings. But nobody dared leave until Harry Truman had made up his mind whether to veto of sign the anti-Communist bill; unless Congress is in session ten days after the bill goes to the White House, the President could quietly smother it to death with a pocket veto.† Between fidgets last week, the Congress...