Word: smothering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prowess at the plate, Bench is also the best defensive receiver in the league. At 6 ft. 1 in. and 197 Ibs., he is well equipped for the rigors of the trade. He can smother wild pitches with either of his oversized hands, and his bazooka-like pegs prove his pronouncement that "I can throw out any base runner alive." The St. Louis Cardinals' Lou Brock did not believe it until he tried to run on Bench last season and stretch his skein of 21 consecutive stolen bases. End of skein...
...easily on the first shot. I heard a roar from the stands, and looked around anxiously. I half-expected to see the Master rushing out on the ice and start shooting those pucks. But I settled down. When Joey came in on me the second time. I managed to smother the puck on the right side of the net. I was jubilant...
...waved hello to Roger. After he had passed the table, Roger turned to me, pointed in the boy's direction and said, "May his hair catch fire. May he burn with his books. May he smother in his smile...
...bars and liquor stores to keep Indians from killing themselves in auto accidents en route home from binges in the city. A much-repeated explanation quotes Bill Pensoneau, president of the National Indian Youth Council, as telling a new commissioner of Indian Affairs: "We drown ourselves in wine and smother ourselves in glue?because the only time we are free is when we're drunk...