Word: devour
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...SUCCEEDED. Tamsen Donner is both the exact detailing of one woman's movement toward death and rebirth, and a proud, universal protest against decay, as represented by George Donner's "festering wound." Without ever descending to self-pity Tamsen asks: "Must we devour ourselves/in order to survive?" She replies: "I cannot see/how I could bear to live/by eating my friend's death...
...Saugus, Mass., a Swiss-developed technique used by New Hampshire-based Wheelabrator-Frye converts and burns 1,200 tons of garbage daily, producing the steam equivalent of 12 million to 17 million gals, of oil a year for a nearby General Electric plant. A Milwaukee plant is designed to devour 1,600 tons of garbage a day and feed the byproduct fuel to the Wisconsin Electric Power...
...does its own offspring. "Here's a goodie!" the cat is saying. "Chase it!" (if it is half-dead). "Taste it!" That is the basic training by which the young cat is taught to kill. It takes remarkable self-discipline for the mother not to finish off and devour the captured creature...
...room. Later, in one of the movie's funniest scenes, Artoo and the wookie play a variant of chess with holographic figures. Instead of a bishop capturing a knight, a little dinosaur jumps a small, ectoplasmic BEM (as sci-fi fans call bug-eyed monsters) and proceeds to devour him. (Losing makes wookies so dyspeptic that Artoo is sagely counseled to let Chewjbacca win.) All science fiction movies these days are measured against Stanley Kubrick's monumental 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). But even by that standard, Star Wars is tops. To work out the photographic special effects...
...Carter comes to Washington full of high expectations at a time of low hopes. Some see a Daniel delivered over to the lions of the capital city, crouched to devour his plainness. Some quake before their own image of a Confederate Cromwell, brassy with power, bent on razing their comfortable habitations down to zero, as the Yankees razed Atlanta in the war. And many beyond the Washington swirl have been convinced that whatever else he is, Jimmy Carter is a man of mystery who will continue to engage the political dramatists for years to come...