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Word: drown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reaction to Superstar may be, Webber and Rice have fused words and music into such a convincing narrative style that rock may never be quite the same again. Webber's clever sounds and rhythms (such as Latin, soft rock, ragtime, Prokofiev four-step) not only do not drown out Rice's words, but actually show an awareness of their syllabic structure. Just imagine, listening to rock and understanding the words too. The musical depiction of Christ (Ian Gillan) is far too neutral to capture either a man or a myth. But Mary Magdalene (Yvonne Elliman) has been etched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rock Passion | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

Applause for the speakers was enough to drown out the one or two hecklers in the crowd...

Author: By Joyce Heard, | Title: 200 Attend Rally Against Bombing | 10/16/1970 | See Source »

...definitely against it; so is Cambridge," Winthrop Jameson, chairman of the Belmont Conservation Commission, said yesterday. "It'll just drown Belmont," he added. After a hearing held in June the Belmont Board of Selectmen voted against the project, contending that the filling in of the pond would cause flooding in the neighborhoods adjacent to the site...

Author: By J. W. Stillman, | Title: Conservationists Ask Veto of Harvard Plan For Low-Rent Housing | 10/6/1970 | See Source »

...happened. Bombardments, raids, and finally, a massive expedition of 50,000 troops crossing the thick layer of ice atop the Finnish Gulf to take back the fortress from the insurrectionists. The rebels blow gigantic holes in the ice, and hundreds of loyalist troops drown in chilling graves. The expedition's survivors bludgeon their way into the city, defended by 15,000 men, and there is fierce hand-to-hand combat raging in the city's homes and streets. Then a silence, and it is over, some of the sailors fleeing across the ice to Finland and the rest on their...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: Kronstadt 1921 | 8/7/1970 | See Source »

...child had rejected the bottle. Thus Anna willingly eats only apples she plucks from a tree, since she equates them with the breast and anything else represents the artificiality of a bottle. Anna makes substantial progress-until she discovers the analyst with another patient and tries to drown herself in a fit of jealousy. Blanche takes Anna home and assumes a mother-infant relationship. Carefully, she leads the girl through 1.8 years of life in 18 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Darkness to Light | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

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