Word: drownings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mosques by extremist guerrillas of the Armed Islamic Group. "Ballots on Thursday, blood and bullets to follow," promised a rhyme chanted in Arabic by the fundamentalists. In a country where beheading, throat slashing and car bombs have become daily occurrences, no one doubted the militants' fervent wish to drown last Thursday's presidential election in blood...
...thankful to be alive. In Minnesota the lakes are freezing over in late November, and some men who envision a leadership role for themselves take their snowmobiles out onto the thin ice and fall through and drown in the cold water--their last thought in this life: "Boy, was this dumb or what?"--and so far I have not been one of them. Caution was bred into me: I never played with guns or made a hobby of pharmaceuticals or flung myself off a cliff while clinging to a kite. I read books instead. I read books in which...
...HAVE NEVER HEARD A NOISE AS LOUD AS the silence of the many black men who came together without violence or hate. Even the suggestion that African Americans who embrace Minister Farrakhan's message must join the Nation of Islam or adopt anti-Semitism could not drown out the beauty of hundreds of thousands of black men united in peace, love and respect. All America should be proud. TONYA DELORES BARNES Stone Mountain, Georgia...
...American public and raising everyone to a level where he or she is able to take advantage of the system of capitalism, the solution seems to be making sure that those who are still above water stay way above--maybe in a yacht--while those who are not, either drown, or if they can, save themselves, by themselves. Not all, or anything close to it, is lost, but America should not lose sight of itself. It must design more life preservers and be more generous in doling them...
Many people in business have valid stories of the burdens of regulations gone awry. But this year the Republican majority has filled the Capitol with stories of absurd excesses, many of them apocryphal. According to one bogus story, the Federal Government requires buckets to leak so children won't drown in them. Another says sand has been ruled a toxic substance. Nevertheless, myth and personal anecdote are powerful weapons...