Word: gullete
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...meals, the U.S. is in the midst of a popcorn explosion. Since 1972, consumption has soared from 372 million to 611 million lbs. a year, or about 42 qt. per person. From Florida and Texas, where jalapeno popcorn is hot, to the blizzard belt, where maple flavor warms the gullet, new retailers keep popping up across the U.S. There seems to be room for all. For instance, a dozen or more competitors have opened up around the two Garrett Pop Corn Shops in Chicago's Loop; even so, the 33-year-old Garrett's, which sells only butter...
...some temples of asceticism-granola. Mix-ins are not simply dumped on top of a scoop of ice cream as toppings would be in a conventional sundae; they are kneaded expertly into the very flesh of the scoop-be still, my beating heart!-while the tongue and gullet and gizzard of the sufferer who has waited in line for 45 minutes send out urgent warnings of collapse...
...went very well. But now, trouble: a fly buzzes past him, and he flicks at it with his tongue. He misses. "First thing to go on a frog, his tongue.'' says Kermit, remembering the great days when he could make the double play-fly to mosquito to gullet-with ease. But Dom DeLuise, the Hollywood agent who has rowed by in a boat, just a touch lost, is tired of wasting time. "I've got to catch a plane," he says, looking at his watch. Kermit thinks this over. "Not with that tongue," he says professionally...
...operation called a laryngectomy on many of these patients. Because the surgery disrupts the windpipe, the surgeon must create a small hole in the throat for breathing. But talking is another matter. Some people can learn to gulp air through the mouth, force it down the esophagus, or gullet, instead of the windpipe, and literally burp it back up into a cavity called the pharynx, where a rough facsimile of the natural voice is produced. But like all too many throat cancer patients, Parello was never able to master such esophageal speech. "I just couldn...
...unfurled. He was not helped, however, by the first Yankee errors of the Series, committed by Sweet Lou Piniella and Graig Nettles on consecutive batters. But to blame the loss on these two would be akin to blaming World War I on the Archduke Ferdinand's chauffeur. Gullet just didn't have...