Word: drownings
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...from other poor people. It's me you're hurting. Where will I plant my cactuses? They yield good fruit. They keep me alive. This is robbery with violence." Then he burst into abuse: "May this road become a torrent with the first rains! May it drown all of you and bring a curse on your families, on Ente Sila and those it benefits...
...they drown...
...ready to tattoo its citizens with their blood types-underneath the armpits because arms might be blown off-in case radiation sickness called for quick transfusions. St. Louis's volunteer planners first thought of using the sewers for refuge until the city pointed out that a rainstorm would drown them all, suggested three old beer storage caves instead. Boston got RFC backing for its old plan to build a garage beneath the Boston Common, on the grounds that if would be a wonderful air raid shelter too. And New York's Mayor O'Dwyer wanted to spend...
...hler's first chance comes aboard a prison ship on Christmas Eve. In the hold, a Nazi begins to harangue the prisoners, but the anti-Nazis drown him out by singing Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht. Cheered by this little victory, the anti-Nazis feel that, with America ahead, they may yet know freedom...
...south end of the city room, Turner Catledge occasionally uses a pair of binoculars to see which reporters are in at the north end. In this sea of faces (some 300 altogether, including copyreaders, assistant editors, re-writemen, etc.), many a young reporter's talent often tends to drown...