Word: devouring
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...Mailer points out, implicit in this magnetism between fan and star is an ever increasing potential for violence. It is simply a matter of tease on the star's part, she never intends to let the public devour her. But passions have been set into play and they cannot be neutralized by an act of will. The other side of adulation is murder...
...perhaps Bunting was too optimistic in her assumption that the "workers" of Harvard and Radcliffe could devour through all the paper that separated the two institutions. For years, loyal Harvardians have argued against any change in the Harvard-Radcliffe relationship that could remotely threaten the "10,000 men of Harvard" syndrome...
...like a V written by a shaky hand," wrote one visitor-it was overrun by forbidding jungle growth, wild donkeys and giant land crabs that, according to the few hundred migratory workers who settled the island and harvested its coconut palms, would mass like an army to attack and devour the unwary stroller...
...eggs and a large portion of fried potatoes, washed down with a pot of coffee and a pint of bourbon. Between games of a doubleheader, he would mix a quart of pickled eels (donated by Teammate Lou Gehrig's mother) with a quart of chocolate ice cream and devour the concoction...
...also continued to devour American League pitching. He hit his record 60 in 1927, 54 more in 1928 and then, after the stock-market crash in 1929, held out for what seemed to be a stupendous salary: $80,000. He was counseled against the move by a sportswriter whose principal argument was that President Herbert Hoover was only making $75,000. With irrefutable logic, Ruth replied, "Yeah, but I had a better year than...