Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comedy and verbal brinkmanship that can be both tutorials for the trade and, for the paying customers, a standard against which other stand-up comedy is measured. In Johnny Goes Home, Carson is shown doing something else uncharacteristic: losing his grip. Dangling from a railroad bridge as a freight rumbles above him, his arms give out and he tumbles into the water close beneath. Walking ashore, he laughs and says, "If I'd waited another five seconds I would have made it." Historians of comedy, take note: this may be the only recorded occasion on which Johnny Carson missed...
What a charming spot for a renaissance of old values. There are little green islands on the lake. An elegant white house sits at the base of a rock cliff on the western shore. In the evening, frogs croak, crickets chirp, and the freight trains of the Canadian National Railway clatter by on the way to Montreal, the loonlike hoot of the locomotive echoing in the woods as if rushing back in time...
...clock, but the next thing I knew, it was 8," recalls Bob Fagan, a San Diego data-processing professional. "I was so locked into the technology, so out of touch with the emotional part of marriage, that when we finally separated, it was like a freight train coming through our living room. I was not prepared...
...body of a boy who has been reported missing from a neighboring town in southwestern Maine. He gives his story a sound track at appropriate moments: "Scary violin music started to play in my head." He is crossing a railroad bridge over a river when a train materializes: "The freight's electric horn suddenly spanked the air into a hundred pieces with one long loud blast, making everything you ever saw in a movie or a comicbook or one of your own daydreams fly apart, letting you know what both the heroes and the cowards really heard when death...
...words beyond numbering zip into the mind and flash a dizzy variety of meaning into the mysterious circuits of knowing. A great many of them bring along not only their meanings but some extra freight-a load of judgment or bias that plays upon the emotions instead of lighting up the understanding. These words deserve careful handling-and minding. They are loaded...