Word: panning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ready for sale, the payoffs have added 40% to the cost. Since prices are set by the government, vendors must find ways of overcharging in order to make a profit. Some tack a few cents onto the bill, while others tip the scales by sloshing water into the weighing pan. Complained one Prague resident: "It's enough to make you want to eat pork...
...Orgasms. Rosie's Bakery and Dessert Shop (243 Hampshire) offers the chocolate kind for $1.50. Other goodies include walnut dream bars and congo bars, which cost $23-$29 per pan, so goahead and indulge your desires...
There were no close-ups of Lynch on the sidelines, helmet off, smiling at the camera. No shots of him giving the V sign after still another long gain. There would be just a quick pan to the number on his back as he lumbered off the field in that tender-kneed way of his, a big, good-looking man, who was virtually undistinguishable under his helmet and football gear. At first, the bar's patrons would cheer just the brief mention of Lynch's name on national TV, but after a few years of such random mentioning by Summerall...
...pan for gold and come up with a few weakly glinting bits. The Enchanter offers us flaccid auxiliary characters and a descriptive style which--although recognizably Nabokov's in its wit and lilt--becomes self-indulgently poetic and sinks into monotony...
...deep night out on a Texas plain flat as a pan bottom and just about burned through. A recent rain had slaked the land a little but brought forth legions of ants to infest the ground and pester a nearby film...