Word: gape
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...money and maintain virtual space. We have become more profilic in our exchanges with one another thanks to the technological revolution, but we spend more time trying to "communicate" than ever before. I'm sure the library checkers who once saw procrastinators scan the periodicals shelf now love to gape at the e-mail receiving line that winds around the lobby. The checkers whisper to one another: "They used to work; now they wait...
...gape in disbelief at last month's electricity bill, it may be of some comfort to know that all that air conditioning wasn't an extravagance. July 1998 didn't just feel like the hottest month the world has known since records have been kept; it really was. New data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association puts the average global temperature at 61.7 degrees (not all that hot, but remember this includes Antarctica), which is half a degree higher than anything we've ever seen...
...Harvard men's and women's indoor track teams, last weekend's Indoor Heptagonal Championships were a time to gape...
Come look at the freaks! Come gape at the geeks!" The minute those accusatory opening lines are sung, by 20 actors in bleacher seats facing the audience, you fear the worst. Side Show, the first new musical of the Broadway season, tells the real-life story of Daisy and Violet Hilton, Siamese twins who became a hit vaudeville act in the 1930s. Everybody is curious about such human oddities--and aren't you ashamed...
...high noon Wednesday when the Dow Jones Industrial Average cleared 8,000, driven by heavy volume and some encouraging news about inflation. With the new milestone, the index has now doubled in less than two and one-half years, having crossed 4,000 first in February 1995, and some gape-mouthed analysts are ready to bet seriously on 10,000 by the year 2000. Details of the day's trading in Money Daily...