Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
PUSHBACK
Etymology
Noun
pushback (countable and uncountable, plural pushbacks)
The act of repelling an enemy, etc.
A procedure in which an aircraft is pushed backwards away from the gate by some external force, usually a special tractor.
Criticism of or resistance to a proposal, stance, or event.
(rare, nonstandard) Backlash of any sort.
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SUFFOCATION
(noun) the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped); “asphyxiation is sometimes used as a form of torture”
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