Word: smotheration
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...period, Lowell threatened twice, by falling on a loose ball in the Puritan backfield on the 20 and by Austy Lyne's punt runback from midfield to the 25. Both times the Winthrop line stiffened and prevented a score. Early in the second quarter, the Bellboys broke through to smother an attempted broke and took over on the 15, from where Lyne charged around right end to within one foot of the goal line. Harden Smith, who alternated at tackle and fullback during the course of the afternoon, bucked over for the first tally...
...Canada, as in the U.S., there was too much money and too little goods. The real cure for inflation was production and more production. Only an outpouring of goods could smother soaring prices and bring them tumbling down. But the goods had to be made first. That was Canada's No.1 job on the home front. Cried Gordon longingly last week: "Give me full production from the U.S. and Canada for the next ten or twelve months, and goddammit I'm not a bit afraid...
...first two meets, on April 20 and 27, saw the Mikkolamen smother first Tufts and Connecticut, and then Rhode Island and Holy Cross. By grabbing most of the win, place, and show monies, the Crimson copped 216 1/6 of a possible 325 points for the two contests. The Fisher boys, Jack and Willo, started their hegemony over the weight events, finishing one-two and two-one in the hammer throw on the two successive Saturdays. Jack Hunter, high and low hurdle artist, was elected captain just after the first meet...
...fire developing around a radiator in Sever 4 Wednesday drew a lunchtime crowd of 500 students who watched 11 Cambridge fire department vehicles and 30 firemen smother the small blaze. The fire was listed as of "undetermined origin" and damage was estimated at around $35. Before the situation was under control, heat from the conflagration and set off one automatic sprinkler in the basement below...
...Assemblymen did not vote to have M. de Gaulle serve as President of the Government until the constitution of the Fourth Republic is drafted. Extreme Rightist Louis Dumat abstained from voting: "I am against the Communists. The Communist Party, in hugging De Gaulle to its breast, will try to smother him tomorrow...