Word: smothered
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Early in the final 20 the Terriers had two threats serious enough to force Smith and then Code to play goalie momentarily. But after Blair used his pads and stick to smother a blast by Pierog from between the circles with seven minutes left. B.U looked unexpectedly flat, almost resigned as the clock ran down. Its only success was in avoiding an open-net goal (just barely), when Kukulowicz hit the post with three seconds remaining...
...cocktails at newly pillaged stores. Fires started in the shops, spread swiftly to homes and apartments. Snipers took up posts in windows and on rooftops. For four days and into the fifth, mobs stole, burned and killed as some 15,000 police, National Guardsmen and federal troops fought to smother the fire. The city was paralyzed...
Japanese women are expected to sacrifice their lives for their children, and they do. Their isolated efforts are now being denounced as "smother love" and blamed by professionals for the intractability of the young. Furthermore, even the most dedicated kyoiku-mama (education mamma) finds that the years spent doggedly nagging her two children toward success take up far less of her life span than it did of her grandmother's, who probably had five children and died, on average, 30 years younger...
...looking, like millions of men in the paying public. But American audiences are now discovering what the British knew two decades ago. "He was known as Cuddly Dudley then," says Humorist Peter Cook, who collaborated with Moore through much of his career. "Whether women wanted to mother him or smother him, I don't know...
...kind, is anathema to Mexican leaders. The U.S. infusion of cash that averted Mexican bankruptcy last summer, for example, was arranged with a minimum of fanfare and rhetoric. Says a Washington-based expert on Mexico: "The most important thing we can do for De la Madrid is not to smother him in our embrace...