Word: smothering
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...engulfed by flames and dense black smoke within five minutes. Some 10,000 fans were in the stadium and millions more were watching on television as adults and children fled from the grandstand with their hair and clothes on fire. Many threw themselves onto the soccer field to smother the flames...
...leos Mexicanos (Pemex). "I was counting my cylinders of liquid gas when everything exploded," he said later. "The explosion knocked me off my truck. There was fire everywhere. I started running. My clothes were on fire, my jacket and shirt. My hair was on fire. Somehow I managed to smother the flames, and then a bus stopped and took me to a clinic...
...Mailer on boxing, Updike on golf, Hemingway on a bobsled run: "A bob shot past, all the crew moving in time, and as it rushed at express train speed for the first turn, the crew all cried 'Ga-a-a-a-r!' and the bob roared in an icy smother around the curve and dropped off down the glassy run below." The ands do it. Everything must keep moving. Housman celebrated an "athlete dying young" because the boy would never have to learn that eventually things slow down, grow old, stop...
...President's statements were intended to smother some of the prospects for discord at the summit, and they succeeded. Few of the issues that should have divided the seven leaders were allowed to disturb the tone of the meeting, even though, as the gathering concluded, about 150,000 antinuclear demonstrators marched in London to protest the presence of both Reagan and U.S.-built cruise missiles in Britain. By the end of the meeting, the leaders had summed up their deliberations in a blizzard of generally inoffensive documents: an economic communiqué, a "Declaration on Democratic Values," a statement...
...eight Donavan sisters, all Rhode Island Catholics of a certain age, who spend every other Friday night from 1931 to 1944 playing cards, swapping pieties and gibes, and often giggling like ticklish Munchkins. Yes, there are private agonies that not even the trill of Irish laughter can successfully smother, but the lingering mood is fond and bantering, as if the playwright had stumbled into some improbable locker room of maiden aunts. It takes no imagination at all to see this play on Broadway next season with an all-star cast. Before they consider that, producers are invited to check...