Word: drowned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saying that he hopes Thomas has not abandoned the civil rights movement, Higginbotham said, "Some people are willing to let the whole ship sink, to let all the passengers drown, to get safely to shore. I trust that you are not one of them...
...destroyed it. It took me 20 years before I could admit to myself that my mother did not love me. To deny what had been done to me, I became a superachiever. To block out the pain, I used alcohol and overeating. When those didn't work, I would drown myself in overworking. None of these prescriptions worked any better than my mother giving me enemas. What worked was giving up my pain-killers and finally giving up my mother. I had to face squarely the abuse that was done to me in the name of kindness and give back...
...fighting broke out in June did the Community attempt to set up a peace conference. Mitterrand said in Germany last week he did "not see it as the end of human progress if we reconstitute the Europe of tribes." But would tribal Europe, starting in the Balkans, overtake and drown the tolerant Europe of ideas...
...clipped modern diction of a yuppie warrior -- contemptuous of doubt, confident of the power of confidence itself. Dumb luck makes him an epic hero. Every country his armies confront submits without battle. Then comes disaster just as abrupt and irrational: his soldiers all march into the Indus River and drown. The man of action, it turns out, is as storm tossed on the seas of fate as any man of thought -- and far less equipped to handle the swings of fortune. Any parallels to George Bush and the gulf war are obviously intentional...
...prove fleeting because an array of new formats is poised to enter the market: digital audiotapes, digital compact cassettes and even recordable mini discs. While those formats are likely to contain devices to thwart mass copying, musicians may find that the only way to beat the bootleggers is to drown them out with legitimate material...