Word: drowned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home meet of the season proved to be your basic laugher. It was obvious from the beginning that the lowly 2-6 Quakers were no match for the league-leading Crimson. Earlier in the week, Penn had captured its first Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League victory by shaving down to drown Brown...
...despair in this petty world of fact ("There was a flood in Boston in 1835, maybe there will be again"). And all will be in vain, gurp, forever ("If it was 1835 I wouldn't have to go on the unicycle to Revere Beach, I could drown in my rooms...
...abroad. The very existence of the law causes bureaucrats to hesitate before launching actions they would not want to explain in public. But as the number of paper chasers grows in Washington, it is increasingly clear that some changes are needed in the act, otherwise the Government may drown in its own regurgitated material...
...France Flight 001 sliced through the morning mist. The approach and landing were loud enough to drown out the protests of 15 pickets forlornly shouting "Stop the SST!" by an expressway ramp outside the terminal, but the noise level was a comfortable 14 decibels below the limit set by the Federal Aviation Administration. Moments earlier a Boeing 707 had registered slightly louder on a routine approach. Two minutes and five seconds after Flight 001 landed, British Airways Flight 171 touched down. The two Concordes then taxied to the terminal in a kind of victory parade, celebrating the inauguration of supersonic...
Even as a youth, Egypt's Anwar Sadat, 58, had an elevated sense of his own destiny. At 14, he fell into an irrigation canal near his home village of Mit Abu el Kom. Saved from drowning, he was asked what his last thought had been as he went under the water. The answer: "If I drown, Egypt will have lost Anwar Sadat...