Word: drown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peace, which was to the women a pleasing thing." Off and on throughout the century, dairymaids would form an "Amazonian" mob to protest against enclosure of the land where their cattle grazed. The militants armed themselves with scythes and pitchforks, and on one occasion threatened to burn the houses, drown the servants and cut off the head of one of their oppressors, a certain Captain Thomas Lovell. "It was only the intervention of 'a gentlewoman' who happened to be passing," reports Lady Antonia, "which dissuaded the women from their violent course, otherwise they would have done the captain...
They must have been hoping for the G.O.P. to put on a good show?good enough, anyway, to drown out the din over their own troubles. ?By William R. Doemer...
...liberated dead sing a hymn to the revolution: "We stand by the river./ If the water is deep we will swim./ If it is too fast we will build boats./ We will stand on the other side./ We have learned to march so well/ That we cannot drown...
...suit, causing as economic collapse and the subsequent reform of apartheid. This is a pipe dream, designed to soothe the guilty consciences of liberal Harvard students and "morally purify" their university. This is what divestment is about, and this is why the campus fake-leftists did their best to drown us out when we took the opportunity between speeches to chant "Black Labor is the key to smash apartheid slavery" and "Put Botha on the run, ANC fighters need Russian guns." I might add that at an April 6 demonstration at Tufts University to protest the scheduled appearance of Henry...
...been trying for 35 years to teach McCurdy how to fish," Hunt says. "I'll do it now, or I'll drown trying...