Word: drowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YORK TIMES COLUMNIST TOM WICKER: The clamor for Richard Nixon's resignation is suddenly so deafening that it may drown out good sense and overwhelm due process. It risks a rush to decision rather than an exercise of judgment, and it proposes a constitutional short cut when the primary problem is that the Constitution already has been too often slighted or ignored...
...Noah being, of course, the son of Lamech.) Eventually they put together a 21-page booklet recounting their experiences. Entitled You Can't Build an Ark in Mendocino County, it shows that the class learned at least one lesson: if Noah were around today, chances are he would drown in red tape...
...earlier and simpler age, there was only baseball. A really tight pennant race would drown out political campaigns in September, and kids were let out of school at World Series time. But, as everybody knows, faster and more violent sports have eclipsed the old national pastime...
PENN-DARTMOUTH--Hangover, N.H., will be wet tonight, as Greenies try to drown the sorrows of a three-game losing streak. Bellizeare passed the career 1000-yard mark for Quakers last week and motors on today. Penn 17, Dartmouth...
...Muzak is piped over bullhorn speakers at a louder volume. The result is a nasal blaring sound, like something that would come out of the PA system at a Nixon rally. The upper level is a better place to listen -- if only because the trolleys are better equipped to drown out the melody. But when they are absent, the high-decible Muzak is nearly unbearable...