Word: gulping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHAT PASSING BELLS FOR those who die as cattle? Or for those who escape the slaughterhouse. They arrived packed into open-topped trucks, the lucky ones crushed painfully against the cold steel sides yet able to gulp down the winter air as the convoy of refugees crawled its way from the front-line Bosnian Muslim town of Srebrenica to the relative safety of Tuzla. The unlucky ones -- five small children and two women -- died on the journey, their lives pressed out in the tight huddle of frightened humanity...
...third, it was against...gulp...Yale...
Make no mistake: Perot, 61, just might (gulp!) be the next President of the U.S. -- a leader unfettered by any party, untested in any office, unclear in his policies and unshakable in the faith that he is right and the entire bipartisan governing establishment is wrong. No independent candidate in 80 years has attracted anything like this kind of support -- and remember, Perot has just barely begun to dip into his personal bank account to spend, as he promises, "whatever it takes to run a proper campaign...
...Viet Cong and to demand the release of Texas POWS. Our then Governor, known to all as POP Smith, for Poor Ol' Preston, was intellectually challenged by the task of getting from the Mansion to the Capitol every day. You could almost hear the entire legislature gulp at the mind-boggling prospect of POP Smith debating the Viet Cong...
Suddenly, he takes a big gulp and guzzles the rest of the water. He turns the glass upside down, and explains how the world is running out of fossil fuels...