Word: drowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...green vinyl cap and swathed in the luxurious fur of numerous martens, towed an uncomfortable Senator Kennedy through what used to be Mayor Richard Daley's scruffy but functional precincts. The lung power of the combined brass bands of the great city was unable to drown out the boos. Daley surely turned a bit in Holy Sepulcher cemetery...
...only their nostrils showing, they are often invisible to pleasure cruisers. Collisions are common, and even if the manatee survives, its 1-in.-thick skin is brutally gouged by the sharp blades. One marine expert estimates that 80% of the state's manatees are propeller-scarred. Manatees also drown by drifting into flood-control gates; some have been cruelly murdered by vandals...
...reporting it to the police? At a January 1970 inquest, he gave a vivid account of how he had plunged into the water and then "felt an extraordinary shove ... the tide began to draw me out, and for the second time that evening I knew I was going to drown ... I remembered being swept down toward the direction of the Edgartown Light and well out into the darkness." He eventually reached Edgartown but, he said, was so exhausted by the struggle that he could do nothing but stagger the few blocks to his hotel and fall into...
...despair in this petty world of fact ("There was a flood in Boston in 1835, maybe there will be again"). And all will be in vain, gurp, forever ("If it was 1835 I wouldn't have to go on the unicycle to Revere Beach, I could drown in my rooms...
Even after the team had clinched the win, the aquawomen continued to drown the Bruins, with Davis' second place finish in the penultimate 200 yard breaststroke, and the teams narrow victory in the meet ending 400 yard freestyle relay...