Word: gulpings
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...Surely I must be exaggerating," Rip thinks. "Why try to understand it all in one gulp? Why try to overtake history? Start slowly, read the leading fiction bestseller. Escape for a while." He picks up Jonathan Livingston Seagull. The story of a what? Of a goddam bird? His eye roves to the self-help books. Here's one: Primal Scream. He tries...
...study in the U.S. shows that TriStar's Rolls-Royce engines have had to be removed for maintenance at a rate about three times that of the DC-10's General Electric engines. Early comparison tests also show that the TriStar's Rolls-Royce power plants gulp much more fuel than the DC-10's GE engines, though steps are being taken to correct that problem, at least partially...
...things are more fashionable among the fad-conscious today than the dietary approach to health. The Food and Drug Administration has found that one out of every five Americans believes that illness can be avoided if only they gulp enough vitamins and mineral supplements or give up processed breakfast foods for cereals made from organically grown nuts and wheat grains. Americans spend $320 million a year on vitamin pills alone, additional millions on so-called "organic" or "health" foods. Last week crowds of the faithful and their suppliers gathered at New York's Madison Square Garden for a nutritional...
...Welch to ride out for revenge. This presents a problem since the scoundrels have swiped the horses as well as murdered her husband. The resourceful Raquel, of course, gets both a new mount and a new man in the person of a bounty hunter named Thomas Luther Price (Robert Gulp). Price takes her to Mexico and teaches her how to shoot. Admirably, he seldom seems distracted by her wardrobe, a pair of skintight leather pants and a beat-up poncho that flies open frequently...
Hamburg education officials refuse to cancel the contracts-or to pay the disgruntled teachers' fare home. Even so, 16 of the Americans have quit, and as many more say they would do so if they could find jobs in the U.S. Says Gulp: "I never thought that an administrative screw-up of such proportions was possible...