Obama has finally acknowledged that the elephant in the room is crushing us.

Recently, an elephant from the same circus booked for the Orange Bowl crushed a man to death in Fishkill, N.Y.

His elephant fell and crushed him while he sought to display his prowess to the diplomatic corps.

During a siege, attackers would employ elephants to crush a fort's gates.

Few witnesses denied the condemned was the criminal, because then the elephant may crush them instead.

Some elephants crushed the arms and legs first, to increase the pain.

The huge elephant crushed most, but sometimes refused.

Then, the elephant would crush the bag flat with the condemned inside.

Foreman flattened Cooney the way an elephant would crush a water buffalo, but tonight he'll be trying to find a mouse.

Some men, rolling out stout bright-painted barrels which elephants could not crush by sitting on, attracted his attention for a moment.