Word: drowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came the raucous, rhythmic tunes of Sloppy Joe's in Havana; no matter that the songs were from Batista's day; to the Slavs, it all sounded pretty much the same. Hotel ballrooms shook with newly discovered mambas; Cuban students with bongo drums did their best to drown out the sound of the 21-gun salute in Red Square...
Everything you said is true: we do try to drown our sorrows, or whatever you may call them, by listening to simple sounds on the radio, and yet there are two sides to every story. Presumably, being an adult, you looked in from the outside and could not see for the reflection. Today I think we all feel the push, rush and tension in our lives. Young people feel this drive as much as adults, if not more, because of their youth. We seek to relieve this tension of "broken dates, homework, high school," not as adults, but with something...
Muttering caveat emptor over and over to drown out my conscience, we heartlessly sublet our superdeluxe "Something East" and quietly left town...
...Hara's customary target is, of course, the book reviewer. His attitude toward reviewers is, more or less, that he has spent 40 years learning how to write, and that if they do not approve of the results, they should feel perfectly free to go drown themselves...
...afternoon opened with Drown looking just as an Ivy League cellar dweller should. The Bruins fumbled the opening kick-off on their own 28 and Crimson captain Dick Diehl out-scrambled three Bruins for possession...