Word: drowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lady should have to compete with a bullhorn, even if she has the vocal equipment to drown out a dozen of them. Policemen in a Tampa, Fla. concert hall were trying hard to restrain a surging, frenzied audience reacting typically to Janis Joplin's Try a Little Harder. The cops resorted to a bullhorn, and that annoyed Janis. "Listen," she shouted, "I know there won't be any trouble if you'll just leave!" The officers refused and sounded the horn again. That did it. Janis, as a fan reported, "simply went nuts," blistering the air with...
...central question was whether an autopsy would be of any medical value three months or more after the body was embalmed and buried. The Kopechnes' lawyers called Dr. Werner Spitz, deputy chief medical examiner for Maryland and an expert on drowning cases, who said that anatomical evidence of drowning would already have disappeared.* Spitz argued that Mary Jo did in fact drown-but not immediately. A pinkish froth around the nose, he said, indicated that she "remained alive for a certain time" while the car was under water in Poucha Pond. "She breathed, that girl," Spitz said. "She wasn...
...count the best way of handling problems, especially in a period of rapid and unforeseen change such as our own. One may question the validity of the fear that the consequence of joining in a national effort to end the war in Vietnam will be to drown the Faculty in "continued and inevitably impassioned political debate." It is a great bother, and it takes a great deal of time, to engage in such debate. Most of those who do engage in it do so because they feel driven to do so, and would much prefer a world in which they...
...nonverbal age, when Samuel Johnson, Coleridge and the rest will be no more intelligible than hippopotamus snorting and snuffling in jungle muck? Are we on the verge of a new Dark Age of universal literacy in which the mind, and the longing for the pleasures of literature, will drown in a plethora of print? Gross quotes the new attitude as described by a Kingsley Amis character: "If there was one thing which Roger never felt like, it was a good read." Have science and the new near disciplines like sociology-not to mention the sheer accumulation of modern knowledge that...
...universe out of my mind. There is nothing where I recognize myself. If anything, it is a kind of auto-destruction." Novelist-Critic Alberto Moravia recognized some of the old Fellini trademarks however: monstrous old people, perverse youth populating "an antique world in which decadence and death gradually drown and destroy the senses...