Word: smothering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subsidies legalized price fixing, and deterrents to competition are their clients' rewards while the lawyers themselves collect from $35 to $250 per hour. They avoid publicity seeking, bullying Federal agents, or taking undue advantage of Congressional and Executive connections. They have their own methods, the "graceful technique is to smother, to overwhelm, and always with good natured tolerance of the bureaucrats...
...much schooling works against education." So writes ex-Teacher John Holt, who has shown that schools encourage bored children to grope for rote answers and smother their spontaneous ways of acquiring knowledge. Those criticisms in his widely read books, How Children Fail and How Children Learn, made him a major spokesman for the reform movement in American education. Now, in his latest work, Freedom and Beyond (E.P. Dutton; $7.95), Holt argues that reformers of classroom methods might better work to "deschool" society...
...Meany had won the round inside the hall, he clearly lost it outside. In a situation where he had the upper hand, he came across as churlish and vindictive. Labor strategists conceded later that it might have been better tactics to smother the President with kindness rather than cold-shoulder him. As the convention continued last week, he tried to recover lost ground. He told the delegates that he had not intended to give the President an inferior seat. "When you go back over the history, John F. Kennedy sat in that chair. Lyndon Johnson sat in that chair...
...first call would go to the police commissioner. The second would go from the commissioner to his legal counsel. The counsel would quickly burrow into lawbooks to see if there might not be some handy old statutes tucked away. Meanwhile the commissioner would send the word down: "Smother them." In all likelihood, the department would put so many cops on the street in and around the Russians that the J.D.L. would quickly become the victims of harassment-legal, on the whole-instead of the perpetrators. The cops, too, would act as witnesses, which would get around the problem of diplomatic...
...White case, the Government has a minimal obligation to get a warrant before listening in. Justice John Harlan called third-party bugging a danger that could undermine even the most innocent confidential relationships between citizens. "Were third-party bugging a prevalent practice," said Harlan, "it might well smother that spontaneity-reflected in frivolous, impetuous, sacrilegious and defiant discourse-that liberates daily life...