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Word: overboil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Wolfe writes, "the most exquisite form of torture imaginable would have been to have found yourself locked inside a Seaboard railroad roomette just north of Jacksonville on the Miami-to-New York run with the radiator sizzling in an amok, red-mad psychotic overboil and George McGovern sitting beside you, telling you his philosophy of government." Boom! "In the late seventies there was the bottle of Perrier, a French soda water. The fashionable American expense-account lunch drink became lighter and lighter, but not cheaper and cheaper. The soda water sold for $2.50 a glass in Manhattan restaurants...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: In Sheep's Clothing | 10/24/1980 | See Source »

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