Word: drowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radical columnists-Childs, Lippmann, Alsop-and all the radical newspapers like the New York Times, the Washington Post, even Izvestia in Russia-they are suddenly expressing a great deal of concern about the Republican Party. Nothing would make these people happier than if the Republican Party were to drown. Do you know what they're afraid of? They're afraid they're going to have a Republican candidate they can't control...
...processing plants, at Kom Ombo, 40 miles north of Aswan. Many Nubians resent the move. Their culture, which survived waves of invaders from the Egyptians to the Turks, seems doomed to certain dilution in the new settlements. But as one Egyptian said: "What is left to us but to drown the past in order to save the future...
...unconscious and needed artificial respiration, was carted home on a stretcher and put to bed. Friends were astonished when he got up at 7 o'clock sharp the following morning and started on his day's work. But then, Frank Sinatra was not in Hawaii to drown. He was there to establish that he is not only a bang-up movie star and the top vocalist in all the world, but also to launch a new career as a film director...
Daily circulation more than doubled, to 153,606. So did advertising. The time came when the groaning presses could handle no more, and the Mercury and the News reluctantly turned away ads. "We don't have newspapers here," says Circulation Manager Arvey Drown. "We've got catalogues...
Sophistry & Suicide. Today's lawyers, for all their own quibbling, might boggle at some of Shakespeare's, such as the hairsplitting debate of Ophelia's gravediggers over whether she deserves a Christian burial. "If I drown myself wittingly it argues an act; and an act hath three branches; it is, to act, to do, and to perform: argal, she drowned herself wittingly." But Shakespeare's audience instantly got the message: the sophistry is a satire on a real-life trial (Hales v. Petit) concerning a judge who also lost his reason and drowned himself near Canterbury...