Search Details

Word: drowns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...third woman told of troops throwing a live baby into a river to drown...

Author: By Jamie Raskin, | Title: Financing El Salvador's Reign of Terror | 3/5/1981 | See Source »

...illustrious school, a very..." The fans drown Travolta...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The Roar of the Greasepaint | 2/19/1981 | See Source »

Perhaps it is this dearth of activity and lack of places to escape to that brought well over 100 spectators to Dillon Pool last Saturday to watch the Princeton Tigers drown the Harvard aquawomen by a convincing margin. More probably, however, it was because the Tigers have a devoted following that attends every meet--a following the high caliber of their swimmers and the stellar quality of their divers merits...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: Tigers In Tanksuits | 2/11/1981 | See Source »

...drown or is at least considering the possibility. The first stanza is cheery enough, but it really belongs to another poem. The sense of advocated surrender in the final stanza is unmistakable. Not that Reagan would be unusual in having contemplated death as a way out of adolescence, but one does not think of his early life as having been touched with "sorrow and pain." Of course, the poem might simply have been the product of a bad moment. But even a momentary touch of desperation is interesting in such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of the Past, Fresh Choices for The Future | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

...when she mentions the "immortal rhythm" of their quiet times together in Sussex. This final volume closes with the simple, moving note she left him when, at 59, fearing the loss of her artistic gift and sensing the onset of another bout of madness, she decided to drown herself: "Dearest, I want to tell you that you have given me complete happiness. No one could have done more than you have done . . . But I know that I shall never get over this: and I am wasting your life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sacred Values | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

Previous | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | Next