Word: plunking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pretty dull affairs, but you do have the legal option of enlivening matters with a wager or two. Las Vegas casinos offer a dizzying number of propositions for betting on the Game. Here is just a small sample--yes, a small sample--of the "props" for which you can plunk down your money. The variety may offer new meaning to the saying "There's a sucker born every minute...
Occasionally you meet a real omnivore who will plunk down $7.50 for anything. But more likely, you as a reader have self-identified as either one or the other of the above. But why bother? To what extent are the movies available to us really bifurcated on such a simple line? "That arty stuff is boring," complains Average Joe Popcorn. "Those action pictures are so senseless," scoffs Elitist Joe Coffeeshop. Neither of these statements are universally true, of course, which brings us back to Henry James. And to vampires...
...atmosphere in the nearly 40 years the agency has tracked them. "Almost all have burned up during re-entry," says Colonel Marc Dinerstein. As for the rest? Since the earth's surface is more than 70% water, the odds are that space trash will hit water and not plunk Australia again...
...September rolls around in Boston, businesses greedily await the return of students to campus. And I'm not just talking about the textbook monopolists over at our beloved Coop. While students always plunk down a few dollars here and there for pens and pencils, many also find it useful to make an investment in a computer. The vast majority of first-year students are looking for a computer to take care of their word processing needs for the next four years. And an increasing number of upperclass students are discarding their older machines like summer clothing; buying new notebook...
...every student knows, should you want to have any eyesight left when you receive your diploma, you cannot rely on Harvard lighting during late night study seesions. Instead, students troop to the Coop and plunk down their $20 for the halogen lamp. This is hardly an exaggeration: the number of halogen lamps per room on campus is certainly beyond the n+1 ratio...