Word: drowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Michel Singher '62 complemented Mr. Wiseman throughout. His performance of the Faure accompaniment was in itself a creditable piece of pianism, even if, at times, he tried to drown Mr. Wiseman...
...Khmers added steadily to their glory. They were prodigious engineers: their moats, canals and reservoirs made the land so fertile that hunger was virtually unknown. One inscription honors a king, not for his conquests but for creating a reservoir "beautiful as the moon, to refresh mankind and to drown the insolence of the other kings...
...life, the hero and heroine stop petting and finally even stop seeing each other. Now according to Freud, the repression of sex can cause all sorts of unpleasant symptoms. So the hero promptly comes down with pneumonia, while the heroine gets the screaming meemies and tries to drown herself. In the end, though, her balance is restored by a nice friendly old Freudian psychiatrist...
...Board of Education of the nation's largest and sickest school system last week was awash in a mire of corruption and politics. New York's Democratic Mayor Robert F. Wagner, running for reelection, needed a show of indignant action to drown out the crescendo of scandals in school construction that took place under the nine-man board (which he appointed). He set about dumping the board, and five agreed to go. Governor Nelson Rockefeller, aroused by the school mess (and bucking for Wagner's Republican opponent, State Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz), called on the legislature...
What is to be done, then, with the "little bastards"? Drown them? Maybe raise them to be conservatives? What about the unwed parents? Sterilize them perhaps? These procedures, if adopted, would have to be paid for somehow. All children are our children, and we all have our responsibilities toward them, bastards or otherwise...