Word: drowns
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After a post-tournament awards ceremony, a couple of the losing players headed indoors to drown their sorrows in a beer drinking contest. "Jesus," Parsons said, "I really feel lousy that we lost...
...course. I'm older than she is. And she's left a string of corpses in all her movies. It's time she got bumped off! Besides, I can't swim. I'd really drown...
...ladies grow round with greed as pheasants and lobsters, sorbets and desserts, are presented to them. Even those who do not betray their appetite by staring, who continue to talk with animation of other subjects, give themselves away when, without warning, a polite and cultivated syllable will suddenly drown in an excess of saliva. Yet it is a reckless woman who dares take more than a small slice of some favorite dish, for should she eat as much as she likes, she will simply faint dead away, as the corsets they wear this season are of tightest whalebone...
...Chappaquiddick affair. He is too concerned with THE Kennedy, as he terms him at one point in the book, and incredibly insensitive to the moral questions raised by Chappaquiddick about equal justice and the power of certain people in American society. And what about Mary Jo Kopechne, left to drown? Her mother later asked bitterly whether Kennedy considered her a fish, to leave her overnight in a submerged car. It is a disturbing question, one Reybold never asks...
...atmosphere that resembles the inside of a coffin. The basic problem with Lamont, besides the fact that the lights are dim and the walls are ugly, is that a lot of people around here wear Topsiders, which, when in contact with the Lamont floors, create squeaks that would drown out Ella Fitzgerald...