Word: drown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That tears shall drown the wind...
L.B.M.: Then let's do a space scene. Maybe lower some flying saucers from the ceiling, stage a big star war and drown the bad guys under a couple of waterfalls. With the right kind of equipment, we could pump 6,000 gallons and water down every drink in the first four rows...
...says Cushing at one point, "but to tell you the truth, he don't speak my language. What I listen to mainly is pain." Warm words from a people's pastor, but did Cushing ever say anything like that? Did he, as the book also suggests, drown his painful illnesses in alcohol...
Vigorously dissenting, Justice Byron White insisted that allowing corporations to spend money on political issues unrelated to their business would harm free speech. Corporate money, wrote White, can drown out individual expression. To defeat antinuclear-power referendums, he noted, firms in California outspent the opposition by $2.5 million to $1.6 million; in Montana, corporations raised $144,000 to their foes...
Paper wars: trying to drown the other side in motions, interrogatories, depositions, pleadings, cross-claims and countersuits. Exploiting every procedural nook, cranny and nuance in order to avoid or delay trial on the merits. Often used to great effect in complex antitrust cases...