Word: smothering
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There is little doubt that Author Paul loves the Rue de la Huchette, its food, its people and its liveliness. His weakness as a reporter of it is not so much his frank bias as his congenital tendency to smother his account in cuteness. Springtime is Paris seen through the bottom of a wineglass...
...Says he: "I am not overreaching myself; I think I'll hit 50 home runs this year." He also says flatly that Cleveland will win the pennant. If it does, 25-year-old Flip Rosen's light but authoritative 33-oz. bat (25 homers) and his smother-the-ball fielding will be two good reasons...
...boat for the President, and because a bunch of Missouri Democrats couldn't take it, don't blame it on the ship. (Seventeen big ships hove to in the North Atlantic that week.) Any sailor knows that a ship has to roll or drown in her own smother...
...Goober" Cox counted on plenty of company: his fellow Dixiecrats, who wanted to bottle up Harry Truman's civil rights program ; Republicans who wanted to smother the Fair Deal; everyone who wanted to whack Government spending without having to take the rap for voting against popular expenditures...
...Government is not primarily a cop. Its first job is to use its authority over fiscal, credit and monetary matters to help business, not smother...