Word: smothering
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March is the cruelest month. They say it comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, but we all know better. March tantalizes us with its sporadic warm days, only to smother our hopes for spring with a blanket of snow the next week...
...Stud pita with spinach leaves and smother leaves in mozzarella...
...blend of the two. He pummels your eye with wide-screen close-ups that eroticize violence and give a lurid threat to the sex. The love scene is a French- kissin', torso-lickin' jeans ad set to cinema. In the big shoot-out at the end, bloody cushion feathers smother the screen...
...used it to ladle out dollops of new fact laced with Kennedy glamour. That has all been turned on its head. The 150 or so correspondents now prepare themselves to trap the President for a minidrama on the nightly news, while he arms himself to deflect their barbs or smother them in warmed- over words. A game is afoot. This round went to Bill Clinton by an Arkansas mile. Next time . . . well, given the President's determination not to filter his proposals through the contentious corps, next time may be many months away. Then there is the thought that this...
...capella groups are among the most destabilizng extra-curriculars, the Harvard equivalent of ICBMs. A group can burst into a dining hall and smother innocent bystanders in audio cheese before the unfortunate diners can even say "doo-wop." As for "theme' groups, the craze has gone so far that last year posters solicited recruits for a lesbian a capella group. In any case, imagine a group with all the smarminess of a regular group, but which pulls from a tiny talent pool and restricts the already-tired a capella repertoire to thematic tunes. Enough said...