Word: drown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being taken away from their parents. I would sit on our front stoop, crooning softly of going far, far away to find another mother. "What she did to my young brother was worse. When he was two years old, she tried to hang him from the shower curtain and drown him in the toilet. He still has tic-tac-toe marks across his chest from being held down across a red-hot heating grate. From the time he was born, my. mother groomed my brother to kill my father. When Daddy came home, she made us tell him how much...
This is fine, lighthearted stuff, the kind of escapade that tastes good later with a few beers. Sailors talk cheerfully about buoys disastrously missed in fog, and climbers about snow-cave bivouacs that lasted for days. Still, the risk takers know that sailors drown and mountaineers fall. There is a casualty list, and the chances of ending up on it increase with the risks. Balloonist Maxie Anderson flew across the Atlantic five years ago in his great silver Double Eagle II; early this summer he and Partner Don Ida crashed and died in Bavaria during a balloon race...
...take such a great risk that we endanger our administrations. Both the Congress and the Japanese Diet, while maintaining compassion for each other's position, should try to measure the depth of the water and to use radar to detect the existence of icebergs so we will not drown or sink. If we navigate carefully, and if we show strong resolve, no problem is impossible to solve...
Magaril's inventive use of the Ex stage, moreover, helps keep the O'Neill play from dragging. Using only alternating areas of light and dark, Magaril creates up to three rooms on the wide floor, breaking up the expanse that could drown a drama such as Mourning Becomes Electra. The small spaces force the players closer, keeping the energy level of the play from dropping too low. Magaril also makes good use of the Ex's backstage, setting some action in the passage behind the normal playing area. The enclosed area, almost a proscenium stage within the larger floor, simply...
When the first signs of recovery began to break through the deep recession last winter, economists and politicians alike added apocalyptic warnings to their expressions of cautious optimism. Uncontrolled federal deficits, they declared, could drown the economy in red ink. Yet when Ronald Reagan, formerly the ardent apostle of balanced budgets, submitted a plan for fiscal 1984 with a shortfall that approached $200 billion, political paralysis seemed to set in. The enormity of the deficit monster eventually led to a feeling of futility. In addition, encouraging economic signs, such as a record bull run on Wall Street and continued moderation...