Word: smothering
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Klupinski's father--who was at his son's sidemoments after the accident--remained at thehospital last night along with the student'smother, who flew an Wednesday evening from thefamily's home in Hudson, Ohio...
...when the party ends, Momma reminds the Roman Catholic celebrators that they have been "dancing on graves." Four days later, there will be a fresh grave to dig -- that of May, the autumn bride -- and the family will sink back into the regret and loss that threaten to smother three generations of Townes...
Therapists employ a variety of techniques, ranging from individual and group psychotherapy to physical exercise, to drug treatments intended to smother the sex drive of pedophiliac priests through "chemical castration." In addition, clergymen receive spiritual counseling to help them examine their commitment to their faith. Statistics are sketchy, but 98% of the priests who go through Paraclete's program return to active ministry. And of 200 priests treated at St. Luke, says the Rev. Curtis Bryant, a psychologist who directs inpatient services, "none has relapsed as far as we know." Priests who resume their religious duties are usually placed...
...feet to prevent a goal. Arico followed by tackling the ball away from Montalbano for another breakaway, but rifled the ball wide. Arico threatened once again minutes later when she found herself open in the Crimson penalty area, but Reilly charged 15 yards out of the net to smother yet another shot...
...carbon dioxide dumped into the atmosphere as a result of all this activity traces a wobbly rising line that gets steeper and steeper with time. Sometime in the next 50 years, say climatologists, all that carbon dioxide, trapping the sun's heat like a greenhouse, could begin to smother the planet, raising temperatures, turning farmland to desert, swelling oceans anywhere from four feet to 20 feet. Goodbye Venice, goodbye Bangladesh. Goodbye to millions of species of animals, insects and plants that haven't already succumbed to acid rain, ultraviolet radiation leaking through the damaged ozone layer, spreading toxic wastes...