Word: smothering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Montoy was once again at the front end of the goal, after he ripped a low shot from the top of the box towards the right corner of the net. O'Connor saw the ball well and went to the ground to smother the shot, but could not hold...
...Crimson continued to smother Princeton during the final minutes of regulation play, as it barely allowed Princeton to leave it's defensive zone...
...next day it was up to 25 years. Even people who thought reporters had no business asking the questions were surprised by how Bush was answering them. By the end of the week, Bush allies wondered why he was giving so much oxygen to a story he needs to smother. It's not that they're suddenly worried he could lose; they just started wondering whether he'll be ready if he wins...
Gifford sees Harvard Square as an institutionthat needs to be protected from the rampantexcesses of pre-millennial commercialism, a trendthat she noted even on vacation in England whereshe visited Stratford-on-Avon, the birthplace ofboth William Shakespeare and John Harvard'smother...
...though his plot were not off-kilter enough, Medem feels the need to smother his story in coincidences and near-misses. Otto and Ana's first meeting, their parent's decision to marry, the manner in which they learn of each other's whereabouts after years of separation (Ana just happens to decide she should live in Finland and Otto just happens to take a job flying packages between Spain and the Arctic Circle)--all of these increasingly unlikely events are consciously presented as a chain of coincidences. At the same time, Otto and Ana's love is not simply...