Word: awash
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...game was awash with sloppy play, passes that flew over receivers' heads, and receivers who fell down on pass routes...
...country, it seems, is awash with drugs. Fine white powder pours past the border patrol like sand through a sieve. On busy street corners and in urban parks, pushers murmur, "Crack it up, crack it up," like some kind of evil incantation, bewitching susceptible kids and threatening society's sense of order and security. The public is outraged; opinion polls show that drug abuse has surpassed economic woes and the threat of real war as the nation's No. 1 concern. For a nation whose penchant for righteous crusades can surpass even its tolerance for libertine individualism, the crackdown against...
...many Californians, the proposal makes no sense. If the world is awash in oil and petroleum prices are plunging, then why do energy companies want or need to drill for additional supplies of crude off the U.S. coasts? Nonetheless, despite the crash in the oil market, the Federal Government intends to go full speed ahead with its controversial plan to sell a new set of offshore leases. Along the California coastline, where many of the oil tracts are located, environmentalists, fishermen and many politicians are alarmed and angry...
...bare backfield to the ghostly timbre of the Bears' Baskerville bark. Regarding that old rallying call, Otis Wilson was asked soberly, "Is it more like an arf or a woof?" The Chicago linebacker deliberated and replied, "More like a woof." On the Patriots' side, Runner Tony Collins was awash in sociological queries about his 15 siblings. Under pressure, he managed to name all eight brothers and six of seven sisters. Several of the Super Bowl's 2,500 journalists strayed off to plumb local angles. Guido Dagatta of Milan's Italia Uno TV network had an interest in New England...
...years as chairman and chief executive of General Dynamics, David S. Lewis, 67, helped turn the company into one of America's most important defense contractors. The firm builds the Trident nuclear submarine and the sophisticated F-16 fighter aircraft. In recent months, though, General Dynamics has been awash in charges of millions of dollars in overbilling on Government contracts and allegations of fraud. Congress and the Department of the Navy have both launched investigations of company practices. During all the troubles, Lewis firmly maintained that he would not resign under fire, but last week he announced his retirement...