Word: drowned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Barnicle is critical of Dershowitz's legal skills, writing in the recent column: "If you threw him, live, into a motions session at Superior Court or First Session at Roxbury Court it would be like watching a man drown...
...always, some people drown their troubles in alcohol. Others turn to chocolate bars, ice-cream cones or platters of rich food. In the words of Columbia University psychiatrist Jack Gorman, "When things are lousy anyway, who cares about cholesterol?" Many individuals become violent and abusive, usually to those closest at hand. At the House of Ruth, a Washington shelter for battered women, deputy director Dan Byrne reports that the men who are doing the hitting are talking more and more about the economic pressures they feel...
With two seconds remaining in Saturday's game against the Tigers and the score knotted at 8-8, Harvard had an opportunity to drown host Princeton and gain a shot at the Ivy title against the top-seeded Bruins...
...days in late May, the whole international art set converges on Venice, jams Harry's Bar and the Corte Sconta, and migrates from one lavish party to the next. Briefly the choruses of "interesting" drown out the arpeggios of the singing gondoliers. This preserves the idea that the Biennale has some kind of following outside the art world itself -- an illusion. For everyone then departs, leaving the festival in a state of utter torpor with three months...
...times, the seams showed through. There were a few noticeable miscues, and on songs like "Pressure," the keyboards and bass tended to drown out the vocals--something rare in a Joel performance...