Word: drown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keynoter at a national convention is the man who makes the opening speech. His job is to blow a fanfare loud enough to drown out all the sour notes. The man the Republican National Committee picked last week as keynoter for the Philadelphia Convention was 220-lb., 6-ft. 3 in. Governor Harold Edward Stassen of Minnesota. He had one pre-eminent qualification for the job: he was not a Presidential candidate. Only 33 (35 is the minimum for President), he is not old enough...
...packed with Lascar refugees who had been interned in Germany, dropped three bombs squarely on her decks. With the bomber circling overhead and (so said the survivors) spitting machine gun bullets, passengers and sailors who had not been killed by the bombs began dropping into the water, many to drown. Dutch and British freighters rescued 189 of the 295 aboard the Domala, which was later towed to port. The 106 who died made up the war's second largest noncombatant casualty list (Athenia, 112, Simon Bolivar...
...them die horribly in air raids. The immediate result was a plague of rats and mice. Anti-rat drives were last month organized throughout Great Britain. In Saxmundham, Suffolk, an anti-rat conference revealed that the rector of neighboring Middleton has to keep his radio going full blast to drown out the sounds of gnawing and squeaking...
...milled around and signaled to one another by wheezing through their blowholes. The mother went down to the bottom and rubbed her belly, apparently without injuring the baby. Finally, after three hours, she completed her delivery. The baby straightway sank to the bottom. As though aware that it would drown if it stayed there, the mother made efforts to raise it to the surface, but she gave up after a few attempts and swam away...
...natural tenor. Jealous Italians refer to him sniffily as a misplaced baritone. Actually, he is an authentic example of a very rare type of singer: the true Wagnerian Heldentenor (heroic tenor). Most tenors have fairly light voices: their honey-voiced wailing is orchestrated to an accompaniment that will not drown them out. But Wagner had no use for such lightweights: the true Heldentenor must be able to out-boom a phalanx of trombones. Richard Wagner's heroes are strenuous fellows, who would willingly break a blood vessel to get to Walhalla, and Wagner saw to it that their tones...