Word: bun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...miss the breakfast sandwich, the pastrami on a bun, the huge jumbo with "everything" that could feed all of Lowell House--all at prices reasonable enough to justify the absence of fast-food franchises in the Square. The service was lightning-fast, if a little blunt...
...with her ineptness at Q&A repartee and her whispery, little-girl voice, but still she made a success of it. Image counted a lot. Who could resist this willowy, wide-eyed girl with her clumsy hold on the camera and her wavy hair pulled back into a businesslike bun...
...burgers are being given regional tryouts. In Texas, McDonald's is testing the Double Texas Homestyle Burger, with 8 oz. of beef, and Washington, D.C., outlets are featuring the Mega Mac, which stacks up two quarter-pound patties with cheese, lettuce, pickles and special sauce on a sesame-seed bun, of course. Appropriately, the chain's current promotional tie-in is with the movie Jurassic Park: ads tout "Dino-Size" fries and soft drinks fit for a Tyrannosaurus...
...seen to spin her golf club around like the twirler she was at James Madison High School in Brooklyn, New York. She was also a cheerleader there, but since then there have been few sightings of her jumping up and down or with her hair not in her trademark bun...
...words which are endlessly suggestive to the repressed ear. Words such as viscous, fluid, ballast, balloon, column, effluence, and dampness hide beautiful messages behind their innocent facades. In a literal environment they are not longer potent. What a loss to the imagination if you can't chuckle over your bun, or prize the profundity of eructation...