Word: drown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when King Collins tried to drown out professors last year, he was invariably hissed down. Student opinion protected academic freedom last year and could be relied upon in the future. When SDS tried to take over the ROTC building a few weeks ago, student moderates realized ROTC was being phased out during the next year and blocked the path to Shannon Hall...
...Mary Jo's struggles to get out of the overturned car and his own seemingly miraculous escape: "I can remember the last sensation of being completely out of air and inhaling what must have been half a lungful of water and assuming that I was going to drown and that no one was going to be looking for us that night until the next morning, and then somehow I can remember coming up to the last energy of just pushing, pressing and coming up to the surface...
...people had left the march since it crossed the bridge, that kids were really ready with bags of rocks, that 1500 people were enough to do more than crash one window and run. Marchers looked around at each other with a new awareness. The kids who had tried to drown out Doug Miranda on the Common by yelling "Peace now"-the good vibes kids, the clean-cut, happy SMC kids, the apolitical hippy-freaks who could groove on green grass and sunshine and 60,000 people waving peace signs and singing "All we are saving is give peace a chance...
...canoe trip, naturally, turns into a disaster. Medlock's dream of being tested for survival becomes a nightmare of trial by terrors that Dickey finds in the wilderness and within himself. During the run down the river, all four men nearly drown in the rapids. Lewis Medlock breaks a leg in a spill from a canoe. The mutual-fund salesman is raped in an act of sodomy by two mountain people who beset the city slickers. Gentry tumbles from a cliff with the body of a mountain man whom he shot with a bow and arrow while defending himself...
...hooked lemmings will drown themselves in spite of all our frantic efforts to save them, thus canceling some of the population explosion, while the other 50%, "squares" too smart to kill themselves on dope, will survive to run the country...