Word: drowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battle cries, while fanatic soldiers performed such smashing kung-fu stunts as breaking bricks with their fists and foreheads. Pravda and Tass described alleged Nazi-like atrocities committed by Chinese in the war zone. According to Literary Gazette, "Chinese soldiers hang the wounded, cut open women's stomachs, drown children in swamps, tear babies apart...
...make matters worse, what the mayor sees as a conspiracy to extend the Red Line and drown out mass community opposition is gathering steam. Legislation introduced in the Massachusetts House--H.R. 1921--could effectively nullify the city's voice in the extension process. "If that passes, it will be disastrous," Danehy says...
...despair in this petty world of fact ("There was a flood in Boston in 835, maybe there will be again"). And all will be in vain forever, gurp, forever ("If it was 835 I wouldn't have to go on the unicycle to Revere Beach, I could drown in my room...
...some fine lyrical playing from the woodwinds, problems of balance so marred the performance that it can neither be called satisfying, nor even very charming. The overassertive brass, despite their lack of numbers, covered the woodwinds during much of the first movement; in the Finale they managed to drown out the strings as well, and their stridently reiterated tonics and dominants became extremely annoying...
Students showered Nixon with eggs and jeered him as he entered and left the building where 'he spoke. Inside, demonstrators shouted "We Want Nixon Dead" and "No More Nixon" in an attempt to drown out the ex-president...