Word: smothering
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...this year. Lacking Mitt Romney's money, Rudy Giuliani's name recognition and John McCain's chest full of medals, Huckabee has leveraged his opportunities like Archimedes on a good day. His steady, good-humored performances in televised debates gradually lifted him out of the second tier and helped smother his main rival for evangelical affections, Sam Brownback of Kansas. Meanwhile, Huckabee has never lost sight of the core fact of the Iowa caucuses: turnout is minuscule. Because of inconvenient scheduling (on a school night and opposite the Orange Bowl this year) and arcane rules for voting, candidates can look...
...Wisconsin had controlled the run of play throughout the game by dominating time of possession, cycling the puck out of the corners and working along the perimeter of the zone. Martin was able to stifle any scoring chances by lining up outside shots for glove saves and diving to smother the rebounds she did not initially control. But this time Bauer made a sharp cut through the interior of the tired defense, shuttling the puck to Zaugg for the open look. So the exhausting affair ended in disappointment for Harvard, but the team’s leaders, even...
...grim question hanging over the current U.S. strategy is this: Will the surge and resulting rise in U.S. casualties smother the insurgency before U.S. patience runs out? The next three months will be key, because Congress has made it clear that it will force the Bush Administration into a major change in strategy in September if it appears that progress is not being made. "It could be a very difficult August," President Bush said last week. "We're going to expect heavy fighting in the weeks and months [ahead]. We can expect more American and Iraqi casualties...
...characters suffer, but they make no efforts to change or improve their situations. Cusk offers harsh discouragement to every member of her audience: children, you are nasty little terrors who make your mothers’ lives miserable; husbands, you are irresponsible and selfish ogres who enslave your wives and smother their souls; wives and mothers, you are the wretched of the earth, condemned to a pathetic and pitiable existence.“Arlington Park” is an unbalanced novel that lacks the small moments of comic relief necessary for a really good read. As gorgeous as Cusk?...
That morningcup of coffeemight smell better after you get up from bed. It has been shown that lying down can dampen such senses as hearing and spatial perception, and now researchers have found that reclining can also smother your ability to pick up odors. More than 60% of test subjects sniffing rose odor had decreased sensitivity to the smell when recumbent. The phenomenon could be the body's way of turning off potential distractions while you're trying to fall asleep, or it might be the result of fluids that rush through the brain while you're supine...