Word: drowned
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With ample gender stereotyping, enough innuendo to start a porn film and the occasional need for swimsuit-related tasks, nobody could turn these shows down. If you need to drown your sorrows as the ugly guy who never gets the girl or be certain that a short enough skirt will land you any position, just sit down and turn on the television...
...plane, Moreno asked Aristide for a letter of resignation as proof of a voluntary transfer of power. As his American-born wife Mildred sat in sullen silence, Aristide pulled the letter from her purse. In a single paragraph written in Creole, Aristide renounced his office: "The Constitution should not drown in the blood of the Haitian people...I agree to leave with the hope that there will be life and not death." The Boeing 757 finally arrived, and at 6:15 a.m. on Feb. 29, Aristide fled the country. "It was," Moreno recalls, "a dignified exit...
...tired of politics in the majlis," says 42-year old electrician Hossein Tehrani, who lives in a conservative Tehran neighborhood. "The representatives are there to serve the people, not to drown in their political skirmishes. I am voting for the Abadgaran so that our majlis changes, but the essence of our republic remains...
When we meet Tom Cruise's Captain Nathan Algren in 1876, he's a wreck, drinking heavily to drown his memories of massacring Indians on the American frontier, lost in despairing cynicism. Then he's recruited to help train a modern army in Japan, the chief function of which is to put down a samurai rebellion against the new, dishonorable, Westernizing ways that his army symbolizes. In the first, brilliantly staged fight, Algren is captured by the samurai and sequestered for a long winter in their remote village, where there's nothing much to do but learn the harsh...
...marriages stands in stark contrast to the efforts of some elected officials and activists to write discrimination into the Constitution. It falls on us as citizens to ensure that this dispute is resolved in favor of justice and equal rights. We cannot let special interest groups drown us out as we call on our representatives in Massachusetts to oppose the proposed anti-gay amendment to the state constitution (H.B. 3190) or as we urge our national representatives to oppose the amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Families of same-sex couples deserve the respect and security that can only...