Hints and tips:
...(Charles Laughton sloppily devouring a chicken in The Private Life of Henry VIII suddenly doesn’t seem so bad after all.)...
...Liz Ann Sonders of Charles Schwab found a few we missed....
...But Russian officials also accused the EU of creating a “humanitarian disaster” and trying to “smother” Belarus by planning to close the border....
...There is also a roughly even split among adults over who should succeed the Queen, Charles or his son William....
...But the one thing money cannot smother is electoral logic....
...Enough wool to smother Europe . . ....
...Robin West of the Center for Strategic and International Studies said the regulations were “helping Opec to smother US production, which is bad for our economy as well as our energy security”....
...The Charles Booth poverty map of 1898-99 illustrates the social range in the surrounding area....
...Craxton’s “Greek Boy” stares down from the wall beside the study, where letters and photographs of family and friends smother the walls and the long desk....
...Fever-Tree’s marketing pitch is that there is no point drinking an expensive, delicately flavoured gin if you are going to smother it with an indifferent tonic....
...Charles Freeman, a former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia who was in the process of getting his security clearance, stepped down after a barrage of criticism from the pro-Israel lobby about his stance on Israel...
...President Obama’s decision to nominate Charles Freeman as head of the National Intelligence Council is really interesting....
...Nothing has affected me more than that book (unlike Charles Pretzlik’s critical view of it on this page on January 6/7)....
...“We don’t want a system that smothers us as a society, whether it is civil liberties or our economy.”...
...Charles Pasqua, the Gaullist senator and former interior minister who opposed the Maastricht treaty of 1992 that paved the way for the euro, last weekend pitched in for the No campaign....
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