Word: smothers
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...looked over at him. "I saw his body. It wasn't normal. I instantly knew he was dead." The gunner, protected by a turret, was hit below the waist but still alive. The Marine in the seat behind Halverson was dazed, his legs on fire. But he managed to smother the flames and grab the steering wheel, bringing the battered vehicle to rest. "He was shaking and crying, just in shock," Harding says. "Bullets were flying everywhere." Harding quickly thrust the dead Marine into a body bag. "I didn't want the other Marines to see him because it would...
...dropped to the ice, struggling to smother the puck, Pelle dashed towards the crease, poking the puck into the top corner of the goal to seal the victory...
...part, though, Grumet-Morris mustered several crucial saves. He turned away Brian Ihnacak’s penalty shot in the first period with a painless pad save, and he sprawled on the ice to smother several shots. He ended the night with 25 saves...
...19th minute, a centered pass found a BC player who tipped a shot that was stopped by senior goaltender Aliaa Remtilla. Remtilla attempted to smother the loose ball, but the swooping Eagles swarmed in and peppered the goal with shots. The Crimson defense could hold the deluge only so long, and Crystal Frates found the back of the net with a flick of her wrist...
Rather than smother a budding reputation, Foxx turned down every film role for a year. "I had something to fall back on," he says, referring to the lucrative stand-up tour he did in 2001. "But I believe that with acting, people will find you if you have talent. And I have talent." Sure enough, Michael Mann eventually saw Any Given Sunday and hired Foxx to play the worshipful corner man, Drew (Bundini) Brown, in Ali. He drew plaudits--and more bad scripts. Then Taylor Hackford called...