Word: drown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other night we finally took an hour out from Disbursing and allied subjects to drown our troubles in that which the Students' Club is noted for. Evidently others had the same idea for the joint was mobbed. During the period there we chanced to overhear the following scintillating conversation...
...Salvador's Theosophist-Dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martinez (TIME, May 29) set a pattern for revolt in Central America. Reports from neighboring countries revealed that plans for a similar campaign in Guatemala were already well advanced. Cleverer than Martinez and no less ruthless, Ubico clearly intended to drown any such movement in blood. In repression, his was a practiced hand...
...keep up the spirits of the wounded, unanesthetized men-and to drown the sound of the saw gritting through bone- Dr. X ordered boys & girls to sing Partisan songs. The wounded stared hard at the ceiling, sometimes hoarsely joined the singing. Often half of the injured were women...
...Toronto, Canada's wartime housing shortage approached its worst. As the Dominion's traditional moving day (May 1) neared, 1,000 families were on a vain hunt for houses to rent. One man advertised: "Shall I drown my wife and baby or will someone rent us an apartment?" He got 200 calls asking if he had done it, one offering a flat...
...City is not what she used to be. The annual Miss America contest last week was conducted so genteelly, with such oppressive decorum, dignity and délicatesse that many a customer, innocently seeking foofaraw and the stimulating sight of rows of good-looking legs, finally wandered off to drown his disappointment...