Word: gulping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...males confirms that dietary fiber fights heart disease. Men who ate more than 25 g of fiber daily from fruits, vegetables and cereal reduced their risk of heart attack 36%. What's 25 g of fiber? One cup of bran, 11/2 cups of cooked beans or, gulp, seven apples...
...obviously spent some time thinking over the possibility of missing such a relatively small target. Calling back the next day, he came up with a more practical solution: "So you shoot twice to the body, center of mass, and if that does not work, then shoot the groin area." Gulp. Better use a machine gun and mow everybody down...
...with this new word which forever onward will become my sword and shield as I strive to meet the challenges of the post-Harvard world: PARADIME. Did I spell it right? If not, it's only because my new word has not been broken in. In fact, I (gulp) never had a paradigm of my own. That's right--I was a man without a paradigm, suspended in a twilight zone of disbelief--until I reached the Kennedy School...
Many goaltenders would gulp and pray. Tracy, instead, charged out of his crease, and, as Mulhern cut left, lunged with his stick to poke-check the puck away from Mulhern. In the same motion, Tracy was also able to corral the biscuit under his body to stop the play...
...leaned over the side of a Soldier field wall, unzipped his fly and sent a streaming, triumphant message to the cement 20 feet below. A tailgating Harvard graduate poured himself a half-full glass of champagne, sarcastically toasted seven more losing seasons and then downed the load in one gulp...