Word: drown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Take It." Sooner or later, many business and professional people come to need the services of Dr. Chope's ultramodern public health department because they try to drown their tension in alcohol. Some, even among the highest paid, become welfare cases if they are too long between jobs, or have a catastrophic illness in the family. "San Mateo is a great place to live," says Dr. Chope, "if you can meet its exacting standards. But it's tough if you fall below the margin...
They called him "Tawl Tawm." His flamboyant Senate oratory could drown an opponent in sweet molasses or hog-tie him in barbed wire. He smoked ten 15? cigars every day and wore his white hair so long that it crested in curls at the nape of his neck. He dressed in modified swallowtail suits-a dignified black from October to May, a delicate grey from May to September. He was Texas' longtime Senator Tom Connally. He died last week in Washington at 86, and, recollecting his career, many a Washingtonian shed a tear for what he thought...
...Welcome Pressure. Like every revolution, the Negro revolution is formless. It is, as ex-Slave Douglass said it must be, an oceanic tide of many waters. The voices of hatred are in the minority-so far. But they often drown out softer, equally determined and far more effective Negro voices...
...like hippos catching peanuts. But the DeLuxe Color is tastefully mixed, and the camera is held by a master (Giuseppe Rotunno). What's more, the camera is pointed at something fiercely beautiful: Sicily. Yellow palazzi peep through dark-green foliage like colossal lemons; vast rococo ball rooms drown the mind in a delirium of pink cherubs and gilt-plaster scrolls; and out of the dark-blue sea the big Sicilian mountains leap like orange flames...
...none of these events interests you, the obvious solution is to drown your sorrow in another ice cream cone and find a better game for yourself -- perhaps frisbee on the Charles...