Word: smothered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yale responded 13 minutes later in the 26thminute with an attack that culminated in juniorNeill Guilbert lofting a soft shot over Dupuis,who was charging to try and smother a possible lowshot. The ball rolled, untouched by the Crimsondefense, into the goal to give Yale a 2-1 lead...
...uncertain. Prospects for economic reform are bleak. Whether or not Yeltsin remains in office, power will be in the hands of Viktor Chernomyrdin's unlikely coalition of technocrats, Communists and tycoons. That new administration plans to revive price controls and other Soviet-era economic mechanisms that may well smother what's left of the county's infant entrepreneurship...
Seymour Hersh is an investigative journalist only as long as his inquiries fit the prior conclusions he has reached. His recipe for writing: boil down some quotes from murky sources, add a few references to obscure documents, smother with one's own exalted theories and half bake. PHIL LEVY Danvers, Mass...
...minutes later, Colorado's Cox was hurt while attempting to smother the ball in front of the goal. Daniels made a show of joining the medical staff to examine his player, which Wheaton protested loudly. This time, not even a warning was issued. Instead, the referee rebuked Wheaton and then restarted play...
...strange disjunction between the private and public Gores stymies his friends, frustrates his advisers and puzzles the press. To one degree or another, all politicians suffer from it, of course. For most of their waking hours they have learned to smother their natural impulses, lest the videotape capture some untoward wisecrack or a flirtatious glance. They know the landscape of American politics is littered with the carcasses of colleagues who tried, with disastrous results, to be a normal human being...