Word: drowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...portrayal of character rather than the construction of plot. And rarely does one of his characters change in the course of a play (like Orgon in Tartuffe). Here, there is no real denouement; Dandin finally exclaims that the best thing for him to do would be to go drown himself head first. But of course he won't and he will go right on being outwitted by his wife. For it was Moliere's thesis -- and a highly tenable one -- that fools do not profit from experience. And he shared with Voltaire the belief that the most effective...
...valley country north of California's Tehachapi Mountains. At San Luis Obispo, he was confronted by 600 angry California State Polytechnic College students, demonstrating in protest against a state-levied, $9-per-quarter parking fee for students with cars. Speaking without a microphone, Brown raised his voice to drown out the hecklers, eased the tension with a quip: "Now I know how Nixon felt in Caracas. This is my first crisis, but I'm not going to write a book about it." He went on to promise that California state colleges would be tuition-free so long...
Death, when I am ready, I Shall come; drifting where I drown, Falling, or by burning, or by Sickness, or by striking down...
...aren't. When it is about a question of morality or a family thing that touches the very fibers of the heart, it hurts, and a man cries when he is alone. You must a man cries when he is alone. You must have noticed that many people drown themselves in drink and others grab a pistol and shoot themselves, because they cannot bear what they feel inside...
Last week's flow of strong earnings reports would probably not drown out the U.S. businessman's perennial plaint about "the profits squeeze," but it did show that well-managed companies can do very nicely even in a non-boom year. Since 1960, with its second-half sag, was no boom year either, some gains in 1961 profits were predictable. But, in fact, substantial increases over 1960 profits were common in oil, chemicals, business machines, electrical equipment and even railroads. Pre-tax profits for U.S. business as a whole increased from $45 billion in 1960 to $46.1 billion...