Word: awash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Defense") were strewn about the floor near a second puddle of blood. Bloodstains smeared the front of a record album on a bed. A calendar (Sept. 8: "Hallelujah. Training completed") lay crumpled on a night table. A blood-drenched sneaker remained where it had fallen. The upstairs bath was awash with blood. Downstairs, strips of bed sheet, clumsily tied with reef knots and granny knots, lay about the living-room floor, and the soft cushions bore ugly dark stains...
Prime Minister Harold Wilson had barely got Britain's seven-week-old shipping strike settled when he found himself last week awash in a new sea of crises. The trouble began when Minister of Technology Frank Cousins huffed into 10 Downing Street one morning carrying his resignation. It was the first major defection from Wilson's leadership, and it concerned Wilson's prices-and-incomes bill, which had just been made public. Limiting wage increases to 3½% annually and levying fines of ? 500 on trade-union leaders who break the guideline, the bill naturally irks many...
...talk as "You're something all your own, just as I am." Bancroft retaliates by spelling out her problem in flashbacks, and the gist of the fiction is that her husband (Steven Hill) rejected her when he discovered that he was not the father of their son. Awash in self-pity, she wanders down to the shore and demonstrates her love of life by buying brandy for a sick bird. By the time the bird dies, Slender Thread has been holding up the line far too long for a film that has nothing on its mind...
...Decade of Development for the third world and its war on poverty at home. And there it is: we don't know. Every time Schlesinger seems to be bringing himself to voice a major criticism of the President himself, rather than his policies, something intervenes, and we are awash in Mrs. Kennedy reading "I Have a Rendezvous With Death," and the Presidential foresights of doom, and the drums rolling, and the procession marching up Capitol Hill...
...with memories of the 'Republican Depression" still harsh in the minds of millions, 38% of U.S. voters still identified themselves as Republicans v. 42% as Democrats. Today, 53% consider themselves Democrats, a beggarly 25% as Republicans. Such is the Republican plight that some pundits-including a few Democrats awash in enough tears to float a couple of crocodiles -have bewailed the imminent end of the two-party system. Already, wrote Richard Rovere, the U.S. has come to "a one and one-half party system...