Word: gulps
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Until the results are in, doctors are not recommending that anyone go out and gulp aspirin for good health. The drug can have unpleasant and even dangerous side effects, including ringing in the ears and blurred vision, as well as stomach bleeding. A more serious problem is hemorrhagic stroke, caused not by a clot blocking the brain's blood vessels but by vessels that rupture. Moreover, prostaglandins appear to work in opposing pairs. The ones that promote clot formation, for example, are countered by partners that do the opposite. Too much aspirin can therefore cause the very problems that lower...
...then, it was Neil Rudenstine's turn. With a big smile on his face, he strode confidently to the podium, took a big gulp (of water, I assume) from a Harvard University cup, and took out his speech. I was at the edge of my seat, brimming with expectations...
...TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JOHNNY CARSON: 29TH ANNIVERSARY (NBC, Oct. 3, 9:30 p.m. EDT). It's not too early to get nostalgic. Johnny is leaving in May, which means this year's annual collection of highlights from past shows will be -- gulp! -- his last...
...small quantities. For Saddam, however, calutrons had advantages. The technology had been declassified and was discussed freely in scientific journals. The imported components had legitimate industrial uses and did not raise eyebrows in the West; better yet, Iraqi industry could produce most of the necessary components itself. Calutrons gulp enormous amounts of electricity, and the power lines to supply it should have been visible in satellite photographs. But since nobody in the West dreamed that Saddam would resurrect calutron technology, the interpreters of satellite pictures, if they saw such evidence, failed to understand what they were looking...
...perhaps, a woman who has had a taste of revenge and would like to gulp down more of it. Believing that no one is likely to accept their account of what happened in the parking lot, Thelma and Louise decide they have no choice but to make a run for the Mexican border. This long concluding passage of the film, rich in irony and ambiguities, is fueled dramatically by a slow, steady shift in their relationship. As Sarandon notes, Louise suffers "great remorse" about the murder. "It doesn't change the world, and in the long run it doesn...