Word: drowns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...answer is yes, such a policy might ultimately prove as hostile to the development of democracy as have Africa's ruthless dictators. No government, freely elected or not, will survive long if Africa's evident destiny -- to drown in debt -- is not reversed, and that will require enormous assistance from abroad. With its current debt of $135 billion roughly equivalent to its gross national product and its debt-service obligations equal to half its export earnings, sub-Saharan Africa faces an intolerable situation that has produced instability and promises to breed more. If the West really wants to see democracy...
...become an annual ritual on the tranquil lakes of northern Wisconsin. As the sun sets behind the dense pines that surround Lake Nokomis, tribal drumbeats signal the start of the Chippewa spearfishing season. While the Indians steer their boats into the calm, dark waters, angry protesters try to drown out the drums with air horns, whistles and taunting choruses of songs with such lyrics as "Where have all the walleye gone...
...largely about pro football and foreign policy. Safire reveled in an October column contrasting Nixon's unpaid and unofficial mission to China to Ronald Reagan's $2 million jetcapade to Japan. The former speechwriter is not oblivious to the vices of Watergate; he just refuses to allow them to drown what he sees as Nixon's virtues. Before she died, Safire's mother asked him, "How could you work in the Watergate White House and not be tainted?" By way of answer, Safire wrote his entertaining 1977 political novel, Full Disclosure, which can be read as a parable...