Word: drown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning at 12:30 when students straggle in from morning exams. "They come in whether they hit or miss," against pushing it back any further, he said. "If they think they've done well, they drink to celebrate; if they've messed up a final, they come in to drown their sorrows...
Galahad Suit. Fortune favors her own; Washington did not drown in the Delaware, and Winston Churchill (as his legend has it) escaped from a Boer prison camp a few hours before he would have received a pardon. In 1951 the Virginian was a bashful, 50-year-old boy on whose career the gossipists were already dropping lilies. Then came the most famous walk-down of them all, High Noon, and here was Hollywood in top form: fashioning a Galahad suit of shining corn for an actor who did not have...
...filthy, fetid sewers that coursed like petrified entrails through German-occupied Warsaw. It is September 1944, the final days of the Uprising, and the ragged remnants of a guerrilla company-waging a fruitless small-arms fight against Nazi tanks-are ordered to retreat underground. There, in sewage, they panic, drown, go mad, get lost, commit suicide and make love...
Navy will be the favorite, but, according to Coach K.C. Chase, there are six crews "which could finish within a length of each other." Chase predicts a "terrific scramble" in the sprints, and if the Crimson can come out on top, it will drown the memory of its streak-breaking loss to Navy earlier this spring...
...hunted, and the bird is so cagey that it can be approached only during mating season-when its sharp sense of hearing is momentarily dulled by the ecstasy of its own love call. Bad weather or bad luck can plague the most careful stalker. Heavy winds, for example often drown out the telltale mating call; morning alpine mists make successful camouflage. And when the Auerhahn is not clucking rapturously, it is listening intently for female response; the slightest sigh from its pursuer can frighten the bird into flight...