Word: smothers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...form one but, after several weeks of deliberation and contemplation, decided not to. Peter Weiner, president of the YD's, explained that he had doubts about the project. Had the preselected communities been adequately researched by the SCLC staff? Was there a danger that massive Northern participation would smother or inhibit local initiative? And, undoubtedly, Weiner was reluctant to throw his organization into the factional strief of the civil rights movement: many YD's belong to SNCC, and SNCC takes a dim, or at least cautious view of this SCLC undertaking...
Unable to aerate his conscience, the adulterer decides to smother it with chinchilla. Claudia adores the coat, never suspecting that she will soon have to shoulder her husband's guilt as well. Suddenly, it occurs to Tognazzi that his wife may be no better than anyone else's. She is young, beautiful, a treasure coveted by his doctor, his lawyer, his gardener, and that antique dealer who -but, of course! Now he begins to see, or thinks he sees, the guile in her innocence. He starts checking the mileage of her midget car, monitors her phone calls...
...amending the bill to include regional aid programs in his own home territory. Massachusetts Democrat Ted Kennedy had a plan for New England, Arkansas Democrat John McClellan one for the Ozarks, and Michigan Democrat Patrick McNamara one for the Upper Great Lakes area. Arguing that such additions would smother the original Appalachia plan and promising that President Johnson would soon send other regional programs to Congress, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield managed to dissuade the Senators from offering their amendments. All, that is, except Robert Kennedy...
...earth's cities getting too crowded, spreading their swarming fringes over the suburban countryside? Are highways too jammed, streams too polluted? Is the world's population explosion threatening to smother India and China under a near-solid mass of humanity? Pessimists who are wrought up about such present-day conditions, says British Physicist John H. Frem-1m, have seen nothing yet. Fremlin has sturdy faith that man's ingenuity will be equal to his ever-growing need for food. But this is just the trouble. Eventually, he says, the earth will be so packed with human bodies...
...departments find themselves physically unable to implement the Gill Plan without making major new outlays of income, such as hiring additional instructors, and some significant changes in departmental make-up? Dean Ford and the faculty should begin immediately to find the answers, or the Gill Plan may quietly smother...