Word: drown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sand. A plain gold ring, the find seemed unexceptional at first in a treasure site scattered with gold doubloons, pieces of eight and other booty. But then a crew member noticed the inscription inside the ring: "In memory of my belov'd brother, Capt. John Drew, drown'd 11 Jan. 1798, aged 47." The ring had belonged to Captain James Drew, who died just four months later when his own vessel, the De Braak, sank two miles from Lewes, Del., during a storm. This meant Amaral, 35, had proof that the wreck being explored was indeed the legendary...
...that there is anything but a consensus at Harvard about protecting free speech, noting that most of Weinberger's hecklers were not Harvard students. Womack, who calls Weinberger representative of this country's "frivolously malevolent policies" in Latin America, says he feels the entire Faculty opposes "deliberate efforts to drown out somebody...
...right to decide for others what is appropriate for public debate or what has already been so thrashed out that nobody needs to hear about it anymore. Further, he has no truck for the mistaken notion that somehow hecklers have an equivalent right to protection in their effort to drown out an unpopular speaker...
Planes flew over the field periodically, and threatened to drown...
...Salieri cannot drown the haunting elegance of his rival's work. Even though the public prefers his own sing or melodies, Salieri is tormented by the knowledge that Mozart alone possesses true genius. And so the jealous man seizes upon a plan of total destruction. In a voice that carries no hint of remorse, the aged composer reveals to the speechless Priest his decision to commission a requiem from Mozart, and then murder his rival. At the funeral, the cathedral would swell with a stirring mass for the dead musician, written by his devoted friend Antonio Salieri...