Word: drowned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Producer's Showcase offered up his tender Our Town in a musical version that preserved much of the quality of the original, only to drown its author's most eloquent asides in a droning of catchpenny lyrics by Tin Pan Alley's Sammy Cahn...
...must be awful to drown. I went down, down, down and I guess I kept waving my arms trying to fight back to the surface. But I don't know what happened after that. All I know is that something must have hit me in the head and knocked me out." When she came to, Mrs. Johnson discovered that she and a small girl had been cast up on a heap of debris. In the morning Mrs. Johnson learned that her daughter had been saved but that her two sons and 29 other campers were dead...
...sheriff, and he promotes his sidekick (John Derek), who was crippled by the posse, to be deputy. But Derek is the kind of fellow who nurses a grudge-first he helps Badman Ernest Borgnine to escape, then he betrays Cagney, shoots him in the back and leaves him to drown...
...First Hundred Days." The New Deal was born more or less by executive fiat, but Will Rogers probably echoed the electorate when he wrote, "I don't know what additional authority Roosevelt may ask, but give it to him, even if it's to drown all the boy babies . . . It just shows you what a country can do when you take their affairs out of the hands of Congress...
...directs as exciting a battle as Author Forester's famed Horatio Hornblower ever experienced under sail. In the desperate game of hit-and-run, Krause is frequently fooled by the U-boat commanders, but as he fights, he learns. Ships are torpedoed and men are left to drown because to try to save them would mean to endanger more lives. Moral anguish, physical suffering and fatigue bring Krause to the edge of senselessness. The commander's personal battle, fought on the borderline of human endurance, is even more impressive than the naval action. Author Forester has written...