Word: gulps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bottle that said "Coca-Cola" through the dust that covered it. The men continued to laugh. They must not speak Spanish, I thought. I hesitated a moment, but as I caught the eye of the one on the left looking at me expectantly, I quickly took a gulp. The expression on my face must have amused them further, but I can only speculate, because tears filled my eyes, blurring my vision, and fire burned in my esophagus. Before I had recovered my good common sense, I resolved to show that I was no weak-kneed norteamericano, and I took another...
Consumers are being endlessly lectured these days on how to save energy by turning down thermostats and turning off lights, but they use only 30% of the nation's energy; businesses gulp more than half. Corporate executives have been quite as wasteful as consumers; some experts estimate that as much as 20% of all the energy used by industry could be saved rapidly by more economical use, with little or no loss of productivity. Now, spurred by the scarcity and rising cost of fuel, a growing number of companies are turning to conserving power with the zeal that they...
...buying of products that supposedly help consumers to cope with the fuel shortage. One hot item: a clock-operated thermostat that can lower nighttime temperatures automatically after everyone is asleep. Electric heaters are also selling rapidly, as are propane-burning catalytic heaters normally used by campers. The electric heaters gulp energy prodigiously, and the propane type can be dangerous in enclosed spaces because they give off carbon monoxide fumes...
Says Actor Robert Gulp, a two-time heavy on Columbo: "In a series the one thing that matters is how much in love with the star the audience is; the rest is nonsense." The audience certainly seems to have fallen for Falk. He gets some 300 fan letters a week. Everywhere he goes, he is introduced to policemen who are nicknamed-or call themselves -Columbo. Currently, Falk heads TV Q, the TV networks' semisecret survey of stars ranked according to their familiarity and likability...
...they shied from admitting that art was what they found. Here is what would happen: you enter the exhibit and the first thing you see is a green flashing light. You automatically start to go in the direction it points, and then you realize with a foolish feeling gulp that this is the exhibit you came to see. You wonder if you have been made the butt of a fast one. And plenty were plainly wondering. It was as if a whole system of patterned responses had been planted in everybody's brain. One such response was pitched...