Word: gulps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into Kezirian's backup quarterback slot will move freshman Jay Snowden, who (gulp) saw his first action of the season last week...
...venture farther from port than ever before. Sonar and radar helped locate the fish wherever they were hiding. Satellite-navigation systems let ships return over and over to prime spots. Newly built "factory ships" deployed nets so huge that they could swallow 12 jumbo jets in a single gulp. Led by the U.S., many countries made waters up to 200 miles from their shores off limits to foreign boats. But as soon as intruding vessels drew farther out to sea, domestic fleets expanded to take advantage of reduced competition...
...artistic, beautiful (if that word is allowed on this page) and...gulp...athletic...
...America," says Steve Wynn, the city's most important and interesting resident. "You say 'Las Vegas' in Osaka or Johannesburg, anywhere in the world, and people smile, they understand. It represents all the things people in every city in America like. Here they can get it in one gulp." There is a Jorge Luis Borges story called The Aleph that describes the magical point where all places are seen from every angle. Las Vegas has become that place in America, less because of its own transformation in the past decade than because of the transformation of the nation. Las Vegas...
...early June, the four-ton, 30-ft.-long female minke whale was done with her winter sojourn in temperate waters. It was time to head back to the chilly Arctic for the summer. Traveling north, she and her fellow minkes would periodically dive down to gulp fish, then swim back to the surface to suck air through their blowhole -- for like all whales, minkes are air-breathing mammals. They followed an age-old migratory track, invisible to humans but as well marked as an interstate highway to the whales...