Word: drown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...developed elaborate techniques to thwart hecklers. At indoor rallies, his aides often refused to admit unkempt students or others who looked like troublemakers. If shouting started, a soundman turned up the p.a. system to earsplitting level. Bevies of Nixon-aires, mostly off-duty airline stewardesses, did their best to drown out the dissidents with chants of "We want Nixon!" Republicans also hired beefy ex-footballers to mingle with outdoor crowds. They stood next to protesters and told them to put down placards, claiming they could not see, or to be quiet, contending that they could not hear the speaker...
...rams on the course, golfers breaking their legs after mighty swings, distance records for balls rebounding off caddies' heads, and the inevitable stories about the golfer's rage. Some golfers knock themselves out in their anger at a missed shot. Some punish their clubs, threatening to drown them or actually torturing them. Some, like the famed Lefty Stackhouse, spend their fury on the nearest object...
...what the British did and guide this revolution into peaceful channels. They did it for several centuries, and they did it brilliantly by and large. They used the skills of their great moderate leaders who stayed ahead of the tides and didn't allow the waves to drown them...
Cling to me & I promise you'll drown...
...went. The demonstrators did their best to drown him out, and they began shouting before he could complete each of his well-known lines. But the candidate stayed calm and collected, and his friends in the audience matched all the boos with cheers. After the demonstrators drowned out his passage about running over anarchists, he started to play with them...