Word: chokes
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...writers and readers, of empty-calorie text, the study of artful language—of words that truly matter—is more necessary now than ever. If you cannot dance atop the tsunami of signifiers heading your way, it will crush you. Learn to breathe language, or else choke on it. If you cannot control it, it will control you. Your words will die on your lips; your thoughts will turn to dust. Taming unruly syllables—bending signification to suit your needs, understanding that everything is language, matrices of metaphor, of which you are a product?...
Allow me to elaborate. As sportswriters and editors, we attempt to make every win into Michael Jordan’s “The Shot” in 1989 and every choke into The Curse of the Bambino. We take the gift of gab—oh, sorry, the BS skills—that got us to this great institution and dress our tales of Harvard sporting events in diamonds and pearls as if they were our own resumes...
...57—“My fiancée cheated on me last week with a club bouncer who later tried to choke me. We are still engaged.” We do not condone this...
...converting bhut jolokia--the world's hottest chili--into hand grenades. Intended to render suspects harmless in much the same way tear gas does, the nontoxic bombs have an added bonus, according to R.B. Srivastava, a scientist at the Defence Research and Development Organisation: the grenades' "pungent smell can choke terrorists and force them out of their hideouts...
...this bulk of information, instead of providing us with a more holistic view of the world, is really just allowing us to misinterpret the wealth of information we have access to. It is firing too much at us, too fast. It’s very hard not to choke if you’re drinking from a fire hose...