Word: devoured
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rudenstine is an academic, a professor of poetry, and he tackles issues abstractly, with a vision of the greater picture. Carnesale is a nuclear engineer, known best for his ability to devour problems as they land on his plate, one after another...
Behind her, photographers cover the beach, swarming around like locusts waiting to devour the next crop of tearful moments. The governor has come to town, and rumor has it that the president may be here soon as well...
...that I mind reading books for class; far from it. They're usually very well-written histories and novels. Given the chance, I would probably pick them up on my own and devour them. But because they're on the syllabus, they are work, almost chores...
...reptile house of a Manhattan zoo, when Arnold Schwarzenegger shows up. He fires a round into the alligator case, breaking the glass and freeing dozens of killer creatures. They eat most of the villains like canapes, but one of the beasts heads for our star. It's about to devour him when he blasts the gator to leathereens. "You're luggage," Arnold observes...
...seemed so majestic, this Harvard College, its ancient ivy draping dignity around us--yes, we were children, raw, terrified, ebullient--as we arrived prepared to devour the world...