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Word: drown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people will continue to advance firmly in their march to crush the plan for the Vietnamization of the war. Without a doubt, the revolutionary wave will sweep away every counterrevolutionary alliance and "commitment" and drown both the Yankee imperialists and their allies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Escalation to End Detente? | 4/18/1972 | See Source »

Here is Marlon Brando in a slept-in tweed jacket, sashaying around an Edwardian country estate complete with a genuine tarn (the better to drown you with, my dear!), and carrying on in various ways with a pretty governess and a pair of fresh-faced children borrowed from Henry James. Brando is Peter Quint, the ghostly valet of The Turn of the Screw turned into a gardener. The governess is Miss Jessel (Stephanie Beacham), his haunting paramour. The film's Big Idea is to make precise what James left terrifyingly ambiguous: just how Quint and Jessel died, and what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Tarn and the Screw | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

...Caine) is a successful London architect wedded-or perhaps welded-to an aging spitfire named Zee (Elizabeth Taylor). Zee has a shape like a brioche and an armor-piercing tongue she uses to lash Robert into line. Robert loves it. He flaunts his casual affairs so that she can drown him in venom. Hatred, in fact, is the single sign of life in their relationship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Freudian Geometry | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

...question Meadows had to answer was: How long can population and industrialization continue to grow on this finite planet? Unlike the doomsday ecologists who predict that man will drown in pollution or starve because of overpopulation, Meadows' system concludes that the depletion of nonrenewable resources will probably cause the end of the civilization enjoyed by today's contented consumer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Worst Is Yet to Be? | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

...that the Giant has coaxed the Party Goose into laying a spectacular $5,000,000 in coins on the table after gluttonous dinners, do you suppose he will sit down to count his fortune and let the clanking of the coins drown the noise of footsteps as Poor Laboring Jack, armed only with his ballot, climbs the beanstalk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 13, 1971 | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

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