Word: drown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PHILADELPHIA--They were looking ahead to next week's meet against Yale and the following week's Eastern Championships, so their times were not as strong as in previous weeks, but the Harvard swimmers still performed well enough to drown a weak Pennsylvania team last night here at Penn's Scheerr pool...
...greatest poem, "Voyage," in a brilliant translation by Robert Lowell, concludes: "Only when we drink poison are we well-/ we want, this fire so burns our brain tissue,/ to drown in the abyss-heaven or hell,/ who cares? Through the unknown, we'll find...
...just in parsable sentences but in well-constructed paragraphs can exert a magical force on his auditors, who generally realize too late (as Simon's do) that he is using words not to reveal but to conceal. He also uses them as he does his phonograph - to drown out the sounds of pain, to keep everyone at a distance from his precious, empty self. It is a perversion of language's basic function, almost a parody of it, and a clear and present danger of literacy, which, like any virtue, can be carried to excess. It is wise...
...basis of two teams' records, it is risky to predict the outcome of the game. Essentially, this game will be won or lost in the stands. The loudness of the "Screw B.U." cheer will be a pivotal factor in the battle of the fans. Harvard partisans will have drown out B.U. fans when they attempt to shout...
...everyone else was doing it, a man could demand either divorce or separation (offering to pay alimony and child support, of course) and persuade himself that in the liberated bosom of the new society he would act out his existential errands where his embittered father had been forced to drown that restlessness in work and drink...