Word: drown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apparently Moscow, fearing anti-Communist speeches, sent orders to the Brussels comrades to make nuisances of themselves. When Churchill rose to address an open-air throng of 15,000 in front of the Brussels bourse, about 150 Red hecklers scattered through the crowd tried to drown him out with shouted insults, catcalls, whistles. Leaflets were circulated declaring that "Belgian workers would never take arms against their brothers in the Soviet Union and the people's democracies." The Brussels police, anticipating disturbance and well prepared for it, hustled off the troublemakers without difficulty. Churchill placidly smiled through the tumult with...
When it came his turn to speak, Belgium's Premier Paul-Henri Spaak told the comrades off. The Red hecklers, he said, were typical of the small pro-Soviet minority in Europe who, blindly obedient to a "foreign power," always tried to drown out the voice of the majority. The crowd roared approval...
...created by the mushrooming population (already estimated at more than 1,600,000), was on the verge of complete breakdown. Electricity was sometimes on, sometimes off; tap water was black and brackish; the city's tiny, overworked fire department screamed up & down streets until its sirens threatened to drown out the busy whistles of the gaily bannered river steamers. On Saturday, one of the bantam-sized fire trucks struck and killed a young woman pedestrian in front of the Oikwan. As it roared on toward its blaze without even slowing down, enraged police and soldiers raced ridiculously after...
...came over him, during which he wandered about confused and uncertain as to what he actually was. He sometimes regarded himself as two persons ... At night, frequently, he imagined there was an intruder creeping about the room ..." Down to his last dollar, he went to the East River to drown himself. A drunken Scotsman danced around him singing. A canal boatman offered him a ride to Tonawanda. He gave up suicide, set out the next day to pawn his watch. On the way he met brother Paul, who tearfully pressed a roll of bills into his hand and sent...
...Medley Relay--Won by Harvard, (Drown, Hull, MacVickar, and Burke). Time...