Word: drowned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dickey-Lincoln dam project would cost over $690 million, flood 88,000 acres of prime wilderness inhabited by thousands of deer, moose, beavers and waterfowl. It would also drown about $8 million worth of lumber and lumbering land. In addition, the inadequate water supply would seem to make it a very inefficient source of energy...
...Zamora's parents believe their son has been mentally disturbed since he witnessed a close friend drown two years ago; they even sent him to a therapist ten days before the crime. The Zamoras will also testify Ronald was a confirmed TV addict who spent at least six hours a day staring at the screen; he refused to eat unless the television was on and sometimes sneaked out of bed to catch a late movie. His favorite shows: such cops-and-robbers series as Kojak, Baretta and Starsky and Hutch. According to Mrs. Zamora, Ronald is such a Kojak...
...radio spot, a camper croons a story of how he left a fire burning, and then a bold new Smokey takes charge. He angrily bares his teeth and sings: "My name is Smokey, and I used to ask folks nice/ To stir their campfire with a stick and drown that fire twice./ Now, it's no more Mr. Nice Bear, 'cause I've had enough of you./ Just one last time I'll speak my mind and here's what you better do:/ Wipe out your campfire, beat out the embers, drown it with water...
...though he may be successful with women. One winter, young Kepesh receives a letter from his hero describing Herbie's latest toilet imitations and, against all the dictates of prudence, carries it around in his trousers. "Of course," he remembers, "I am terrified that if I should drown while ice skating or break my neck while sledding, the envelope postmarked BROOKLYN, NY will be found by one of my schoolmates, and they will all stand around my corpse holding their noses...
...sacred river, the Seattle cascade plunges through a chasm, this one measurable to man, down to a sunless picture window through which park visitors can watch traffic on the adjacent freeway underpass swim silently by like fish in a tank. That was one intent of the design-to drown out the downtown freeway's noise. "It's like action painting," Halprin explains. "My works are not fulfilled until they...