Word: drown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote Zoya to Nadejda when her mother succumbed to a paralyzing attack of sciatica: "With Olympian calm, I put on my coat and go .to drown myself in the Neva...
...house fell in," she would brood. "Whom should one save? Of course Mitya-for this would be the duty of everyone to society-for the sake of art." Sonya even insisted on dragging her friends and relatives into her all-absorbing responsibilities. "If both Mitya and your husband were drowning," she used to ask threateningly of bewildered Aunt Nadejda, "which one would you save?" Aunt Nadejda finally decided it would be easier to drown herself...
...soloist and conductor changed places after the intermission for the performance of the Piano Concerto in G. major (K, 453), which Goldovsky performed with delicacy and restraint, although it seemed to me that the orchestra at times tended to drown out the soloist, and the horn due muffed each of their sole entrances...
...planter to reveal the hiding place of other whites. "They . . . prodded him into leading them over some trails into the hills," said the Father. "He was a fat man, none too physically fit. He tried to drink from a river and in his exhaustion fell in. They let him drown...
...eyes of even the most stupid Germans, these eyes have been opened by the terrible blood bath in which Hitler and his confederates are trying to drown all Europe in the name of the freedom of the German nation. Germany's name will remain forever dishonored if German youth does not at last rise up, avenge and destroy its tormentors and help in the building of a new spirit in Europe...