Word: stanchly
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...could stanch the epidemic in a trice were it not for that old bogeyman the nut case Army general (Donald Sutherland, eyes rolling goofily). Appar-ently a killer virus, the threat of plague, a White House crisis-oh, and a pretty blond child set up for a big bad monkey bite-aren't enough for one doomsday movie; the military has to go bats as well. We can only surmise that back in 1986, when he produced Platoon, Kopelson contracted a deadly strain of the con-spiracy virus from Oliver Stone...
...went into jail in June worth more than a few million. Robert Kardashian, Simpson's friend of 25 years and chief minder, said there was still money left in the purse. ``He's not broke,'' Kardashian told Time. Nevertheless, it was Kardashian who cooked up the book deal to stanch O.J.'s checking-account hemorrhage...
...been said that with that little book, Dickens invented Christmas -- the holiday as we know it, with lavish presents and greeting cards, with liberal sentiment and family gatherings, and with the spirit of generosity helping to stanch the guilty suspicion that we hadn't been charitable enough on the other 364 days. Shopkeepers and toymakers can thank Dickens; put-upon parents can blame him, though the commercial excesses perpetrated in the name of Christmas were the last thing this radical social reformer had in mind...
...restoration" of national security to stanch spending cuts in the defense budget and resurrect the controversial Star Wars system...
...American and Cuban officials are talking to each other -- albeit on a narrowly defined agenda -- for the first time since last December. At week's end they seemed to be drawing near a preliminary deal under which the U.S. would let more Cubans immigrate legally and Fidel Castro would stanch the flow of rafters...