Word: gulping
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...Seaboard on Tuesday night, a strange new phenomenon takes place in U.S. urban life. Business falls off in many a nightclub, theater-ticket sales are light, neighborhood movie audiences thin. Some late-hour shopkeepers post signs and close up for the night. In Manhattan, diners at Lindy's gulp their after-dinner coffee and call for their checks as they did in the days of the Roosevelt fireside chats. On big-city bar rails along the coast and in the Midwest, there is hardly room for another foot. For the next hour, wherever a signal from an NBC television...
...smuggler's most foolhardy practice is called body packing: they swallow cocaine-filled rubber packets, usually made of fingers snipped from surgical gloves. The carriers, known as mules, gulp down the packets in Colombia with the intention of excreting them in the U.S. The danger to the mule is that a packet may rupture, causing a massive drug overdose. The technique is becoming either safer or less popular. Since late 1980, the Dade County coroner has not come across any body-packing fatalities, after an earlier spate of such deaths. Yet during the past year at Kennedy International Airport...
...gave him dirty looks, so he just continued to gulp down his soup and wipe his nose. None of us really knew...
...maiden voyage in January, the orbiter Challenger will carry up an equally impressive bird: the first component of the U.S.'s new Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS). The TRW-built satellite will digest the equivalent of 140 encyclopedia volumes in a single, second-long electronic gulp. Eventually the system will consist of four satellites ringing the earth at roughly equal distances from one another. TDRSS will relay signals not only between ground and orbit but also between satellites, thereby eliminating the need for a globe-girdling network of ground stations to keep in touch with spacecraft like...
PERHAPS IT WAS the provocative tilt of her head, or the perfect pouting lips. Her lovely oval eyes were large and not quite innocent. Smooth skin, smooth, elegant neck, all framed by soft auburn hair. Something--no, actually everything--about Catherine Oxenberg made a guy gulp for air or punch his roommate in frustration...