Word: drowned
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...Danube River would assuage the pain of his chronic diarrhea, and that infusions of oil would soften the buzzing in his ears. “In all biography, there are few images more grotesquely sad than that of Beethoven, racked with cramps, bathing in fortified water and trying to drown the noise in his head with almond oil,” Morris writes...
...memorized the maps. Early that afternoon, I began to leave. I turned the radio off, fearing that I might drown out the beautiful street noise, the rumble of old tires bumping over potholes...
...everywhere. Someday You Will Be Loved starts like a standard ballad until an exaggerated bass line kicks up during the first verse and gentle chaos begins. Marching Bands of Manhattan builds from a single keyboard chord into something joyful enough to counter the repetitions of "your love is gonna drown." On Crooked Teeth, each instrument plays a line that, isolated, could be the basis for its own hit. The melodies are hard to get out of your head, but the thoughts they carry are only pretend deep. Just in time for the new season of The O.C. --By Josh Tyrangiel
...prep for the role, he went through the Air Force's flight survival-training school, where he was blindfolded and put in a helicopter that was then crashed upside down in the water. "I really got close to extreme panic," he says. "I thought, I'm going to drown. And I'm drowning for a movie? I'm a f______ idiot." Filming in the cockpit simulator in Australia (where the movie was shot), he suffered three concussions and, after a deceleration injury, lost his eyesight for four hours. The producer's sister, a professor of neurology at the University...
...long, we Muslims have been sticking fingers in our ears and chanting "Islam means peace" to drown out the negative noise from our holy book. Far better to own up to it. Not erase or revise, just recognize it and thereby join moderate Jews and Christians in confessing "sins of Scripture," as an American bishop says about the Bible. In doing so, Muslims would show a thoughtful side that builds trust with the wider communities of the West...