Word: banging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...yourself more pleasure for the dollar--a little more bang for your buck," the emcee said, cajoling two customers into a frenzied bidding...
...turned to the supposedly bug-free Eudora from Qualcomm. Now, on Friday, reports emerge that Eudora, too, can be transformed into a Trojan horse -- that hackers can write a nasty little Java Script program and disguise it as an HTML link. You click on the link and, in theory, bang goes your hard drive. What's a self-respecting e-mailer...
...used to be you could bang on the door and tell him he'd never amount to anything if he didn't pull himself away from that garbage, but now you've lost that...
McPhee, whom this reviewer has known for 40 years, is the most methodical of intuitive writers, or the most intuitive of methodicals. Intuition tells him to bang a gong from time to time, and he does: "The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone." Full stop. Paragraph break. While this astonishment reverberates, he goes on methodically to discuss orogeny, which is mountain building (benthic refers to the ocean bottom). He was an English major who had written about gold mining in Alaska without, as he admits, knowing how the gold got there to be mined. Neither did the miners...
...communist die-hards. Antiabortion activists rail at China's forced abortions. Exiled crusader Harry Wu charges China with harvesting human organs from executed prisoners for sale. Human-rights advocates complain that Clinton is ignoring systemic repression; partisans of the Dalai Lama call for a free Tibet; labor advocates bang the drums about unfair competition. Even businessmen courted by Clinton complain that China's markets are still closed. It makes for great sound bites when they all clamor to know what Clinton's brand of engagement has brought them...