Word: drown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know," said Nik thoughtfully, "perhaps I ought to appoint some Smolensk men. The way things are now, half the government goes off to drown their sorrows every time Novogoro loses, and they're totally unfit for work the next morning...
...good enough," Kennedy says, "then Mr. Nixon is your man." He drops his voice. "But if you share my view that we cannot afford to be second in education, in space, in housing, in industrial production, in the kind of society and opportunity we present..." And the cheers drown out the main clause...
...Right to Drown. By 1912 the suffrage movement was almost respectable, despite such zealots as Lida Stokes Adams, who demanded women's right to drown. The lifeboats of the Titanic, she insisted, should have been filled "with an equal number of men." A mammoth suffrage parade down Fifth Avenue, with Lillian Russell and 15,000 other marchers impressed the nation and won large-scale public sympathy. After that, bloomer-clad suffragettes paraded in front of the White House, pinned jonquils on the lapels of sympathetic Congressmen. Theo dore Roosevelt endorsed the cause, and in 1918 Woodrow Wilson surrendered, urged...
...high-school ring, and was flattened by a train. Another current song records the fate of a red Indian named Running Bear (Mercury) who leaps into angry rapids to swim to his Little White Dove. She dives in, too, from the opposite bank of the river, and they drown happily into the hereafter. But nothing in the 1960 morbid-ditty collection can touch Tell Laura I Love Her (RCA Victor), a best-selling ballad set in the flaming wreckage of a stock car. Tommy, the dying driver, has entered the race to win money to buy a wedding ring...
Says Andre Mertens of Columbia Artists Management: "Singers' husbands! Find me stones heavy enough to place around their necks and drown them all! In all my 35 years of managing artists, I never quite got used to the sharp little men who tell me where Madame is to be booked, what fee she is to be paid, who is to sing with her and what the critics will have to write. Somewhere in the brain of every prima donna there is a deep craving for security and comfort, linked with fear of old age. This causes her to pick...