Word: snuffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EARS Parents, snuff it out already! Children under age three who breathe secondhand smoke at home are twice as likely to get persistent middle-ear infections as kids who aren't exposed...
...when scuffing your foot on a rug. Said safety-board officer Peter Goelz: "We had no idea how little energy it took to cause an explosion." Hall remarked, "I for one don't see how every ignition source can ever be eliminated." The obvious conclusion: instead of trying to snuff every minuscule fuse, designers should disarm the fuel-tank bomb...
There was more of the same soon after as a pinpoint pass from midfielder Keren Gudeman found Miller racing away from a George Mason defender, but goalkeeper Jamie Pagliarulo came off her line quickly to snuff out the opportunity...
...final form of the bill was a melange of tough, new provisions designed to snuff out illegal immigration and strengthen existing border control laws...
...majors. But most exploiteurs were amateurs--like Doris Wishman, with her mesmerizingly absurd tales of good women gone bad. The husband-and-wife team of Michael and Roberta Findlay, who, Weldon says admiringly, "made the most twisted softcore adult movies of them all," later concocted the fake snuff film, Snuff. They specialized in bizarre ways of killing off sexy women (crossbow, electrified earrings, dildo switchblades). Exploitation? Or prophecy? Michael was decapitated in 1977 by the blade of a helicopter crashing atop Manhattan's Pan Am Building...