Word: smothers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...grim business? Because "the survival of Totalitaria" depends primarily on "bad relations with Western democracies," wrote Lord Vansittart, for eight-years the head of Britain's diplomatic careerists, in the current Foreign Affairs. "There is a smell of the jungle about these dense growths of words which smother old conceptions like voluble creepers," he said. "Part of our species is being conducted by sedulous apes back to the treetops...