Word: drowned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...restrictive responsibilities may be over at last when his brother Alessandro loads the rest of the family in a car and sets out to drive them all over a cliff. At the last minute he chickens out, but he eventually manages to shove his mother over the cliff, and drown his epileptic brother. He is about to do in his pretty sister as well, when he is stopped by a violent paroxysm...
...American Farm Bureau Federation elected Shuman to his seventh term as president, he called for an end to all federal farm controls. Free man said that "fang and claw" marketing would "cut farm income a third," but Shuman retorted: "Those who have been predicting that farmers would drown in a sea of surplus with Depression-level prices if farm programs were ended must be embarrassed to discover that this result has been achieved un der the Great Society's management programs...
...exemplary publishing career, but on the personal level Woolf is a singularly jejune autobiographer. The record of a suicide is always painful, but a curious detachment in Woolf's character leads him to describe the series of crippling psychotic episodes that led Virginia Woolf in 1941 to drown herself as if he were her doctor, not her husband...
They know you'll drown...
...square as Trafalgar. He dangles from familiar hang-ups: a nagging wife whom he calls Her Malevolence, a job about which he feels guilty, and a loathing for the contemporary English way of life. His conversation is modishly cynical: "Take to the boats, lads, and let the women drown...