Word: smothered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jamaica Inn," Laughton is an epicurcan squire who supports his expensive tastes by wrecking ships and plundering them. His finery does not smother his heartiness, and he has some rich speeches about his own good taste and the inequality of man. Content here is in the pure wonder of a brimming glass of brandy. For his associates, Laughton has only his half-lidded contemptuous glance and a derisive sneer: "there is no one like me." He was right...
...that the other NATO countries are doing their share, 3) give Congress periodic reports on how things are going. This week there was not much left for Connally to do but hear Robert Taft ("the American people are being deliberately misled") and Herbert Hoover. Next step: the committees will smother the Wherry resolution and substitute Connally...
...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...