Word: gulp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roughly one-third of O'Hare's controllers suffer from peptic ulcers, and another third have gastric or emotional problems of one kind or another. While they work, the controllers gulp down antacid tablets from jars kept within easy reach. The Chicago branch of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization has sued the FAA, claiming that the O'Hare unit is understaffed, backup equipment is lacking, and training programs are ineffective...
...party was unusual. Most of the time we drank nothing stronger than Inca Kola. A piss-yellow soft drink with the taste of bubble gum, Inca Kola manages to more than hold its own against the foreign invader, Coke. In Peru soft drinks are chugged rapidly at a gulp. For this style of drinking Coca Cola has too much gas, something which the company's South American executives either don't know or are unwilling to change...
...while everybody is beating up on everybody else, Harvard and Yale prance into The Game with the championship on the line, right? Possible obstacles: Brown over Harvard (gasp) and/or Princeton over Yale (gulp). In which case, The Game decides The Four-Way Tie. Everything is normal...
...killed a 5-ft. gator near the 14th fairway. A Metairie, La., family called off an afternoon swim when they found a four-footer in their backyard pool. In Alabama last month a 13-ft. gator glided up to a 30-lb. beagle and swallowed it in one gulp...
...this feistiest of Fourths, it will not be Oh, Say Can You See? in New York harbor. There the longest, widest, heaviest, starriest national banner ever lofted will spread amaze amid the tops'ls of tall ships and raise the first gulp of the day. Hung athwart the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and visible far at sea, the superflag measures 193 ft. by 366 ½ ft., bigger by half than a football field, weighs 1 ½ tons and is constructed like a sail to weather all winds. It was Betsy Rossed in the loft of Marblehead, Mass., Yachtsman-Sailmaker...