Word: chug
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hardest hit was the Midwest, hub of the nation's railroad wheel. Burlington Northern, whose headquarters is in St. Paul, is the country's largest rail system, with 800 trains, but it was running fewer than 200. Only twelve of the 46 Amtrak trains that chug out of Chicago daily were operating, while Armco steel shut down eight coal mines in West Virginia, idling 1,400 workers...
...Gregory's Girl than wistfulness for the kind of adolescence no one seems to enjoy any more. Writer-Director Bill Forsyth, working inexpensively on his native heath, is not one to confront life headlong and headon. He is a jogger not a sprinter, a man content to chug amiably along observing the world through a series of sidelong glances instead of driving single-mindedly toward a narrow goal...
...game, Hageman says, consists of "a bunch of people sitting round a table drinking beer, and trying to fling quarters into the mugs. When someone gets a quarter into a beer, he can either drink it or choose someone else who has to. The person elected must chug the beer and catch the quarter in his teeth...
Around the pontoon, boats chug and cruise?police boats, water taxis, sampans piloted by women in straw hats, ferries, tugs, dredges, schooners. Freighters with exotic names lie at anchor. In the background, the office buildings of Hong Kong Island stand pressed against Victoria Peak. Trinh Thi Nuong, 8, gazes at the city in open wonder. She is told that she looks lovely...
Army thinclad Gus Grant, followed by teammates Cardell Williams and Mozina, set the early pace in the 1500. Crimson runners Eric Schuler and Paul McNulty followed right behind them, with Dixon in the rear. With three laps to go, Dixon made his move, passing McNulty and Mozina to chug into fourth. He moved into first with one lap left and Cadet Williams breathing down his bcak...