Word: drown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grows more appalling by the minute. Driven by the wind, by an invisible power in the sky, a river of sand flows endlessly over the rim of the pit. In a matter of days it would drown the house and anyone in it. So every night and all night long, while the wind lies still and the air is cool, the woman shovels sand into buckets and sends the buckets up the rope. If no sand comes out of the pit, she explains, no food will be sent back in return. The man is aghast. "Don't you feel...
Mickey presents Mickey Rooney as an Omaha salesman who inherits a marina in Southern California, and with it a crooked Chinese manager who has a lifetime contract. The situation is un promising and the dialogue ("Only registered guests are permitted to drown in the pool") needs mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, but inside Mickey Rooney there is a profound sense of the absurd; and last week in moments of wordless action - resisting seduction by Guest Star Dina Merrill or running through downtown streets wearing only a mink coat - he developed humor in the tradition of comic pathos...
...Admiral Rickover and even more to Jules Verne. It is the story of an enormous nuclear submarine that patrols the ocean floor, combatting the sinister forces, human and natural, that threaten the American way. Last week earthquakes of unprecedented ferocity were about to produce tidal waves that would drown almost anyone in the U.S. who did not happen to be standing on Pikes Peak. To counteract these H-breakers, the sub had to blast them with H-bombs before they got rolling. For one hour, on land and at sea, machine guns chattered, torpedoes schlurped through the deep, and missiles...
...volume ends in 1918, with Virginia's major creative time yet to come. The Woolfs had more than 20 years together before the day in 1941 when Virginia walked into the river Ouse and let herself drown. In this loving account of his wife, Woolf has already come close to disproving his own opinion that "the charm of the dead cannot be reproduced second-hand in words...
Nine holes later, everybody was. Washington weather is never much to brag about, but for the 36-hole final round, it was atrocious. The temperature reached 97, and the humidity could drown a man. Nicklaus shot a 77, Palmer and Lema blew to 75s. But Venturi, in some astonishing way, suddenly became that sculpture again...