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Word: croak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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That's harshly arbitrary, as is the fact that UAW jobs have been saved, at least for now, thanks to $60 billion of government money flowing into GM and Chrysler. Meanwhile, other companies have been allowed to croak. I can see how on macroeconomic grounds, it makes sense. Letting GM and Chrysler go under would have devastated the industrial Midwest and deprived millions of retirees of their postemployment health care. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Still Wrong with Wall Street | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

Pretty straightforward: there's a surgical mask-clad doctor with an impossibly large syringe spewing some sort of euthanizing liquid that zaps evil looking pigs to death in one shot. They oink, turn from green to pink and croak. It's simple and addictive in the way that all great Internet time sucks can be. Once you perfect the whack-a-mole style distraction, you can link to the game on your blog or to the social network of your choosing. (Read "China and Swine Flu: Are Mexicans Being Singled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Swinefighter' to the Rescue | 5/5/2009 | See Source »

...shows' viewer appeal is simple: they're family-friendly, good-natured and easy to play along with. Harder to explain is what draws the parade of contestants to screech, warble and croak in front of millions, without the aid of melon-ball shooters. Is it all for the money? Isn't it humiliating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Talent Required | 8/30/2007 | See Source »

...attempt to aid victims of the attack is not lost on them; they were just preparing to ascend into one of the towers when it collapsed. All they know now is that they must stay awake; to slip into unconsciousness is to slip into death. So they croak and whisper in broken sentences mainly about the families they do not expect to see again. In what may be the film's most striking image, a vision of Christ appears to Jimeno; he is offering him the thing Jimeno most wants--water--but Jimeno rejects it. It may sound banal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fine Movie on a Bad Day | 7/31/2006 | See Source »

...asked Megan Kingston, the Charles Square restaurant manager, if she would have included Legal on her do-before-I-croak list...

Author: By Sam Teller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mayan Ruins, the Eiffel Tower, And—Baked Cod? | 10/6/2005 | See Source »

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