Word: drown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more attractive today than it did two years ago. And the Republicans have been told that yes, there is some patience left for Reaganomics, but 1) that patience is not infinite, 2) it does not extend to far-right menaces, 3) it does not imply that Americans will drown the unemployed in order to stay the course...
Meanwhile, a pro-Begin campus group of about 15 sung traditional Jewish songs to drown out the two groups of protestors...
Bill McInturff, a young aide from the congressional campaign staff who was seated in the audience, was mortified. He leaped up to help the President by applauding, hoping that the others would join in and drown out Arnold. Alas, everybody, including Reagan, thought McInturff was endorsing Arnold...
XICA MONOPOLIZES the flurry of extravagant images. As her power increases, so does her array of costumes and assorted wigs. In each new scene, her dressings increasingly drown out her blackness. And in one scene, she even paints her face white, thus underlining her incongruous position in the governor's household...
...until he began to talk, they had no proof he had committed any of the murders. Watts' luck ran out last May 23, when he was arrested while trying to drown Lori Lister, 20, in her apartment bathtub. In the end Watts' culpability came as no great surprise to Houston police. When Watts migrated south in March 1981, Michigan authorities warned Texas police that he was suspected of being Michigan's "Sunday Morning Slasher." Houston police placed Watts under surveillance, but he was obviously not watched closely enough...