Word: pound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Especially inventive are Nabokov's condensed metaphors, like those in the poetry of imagists such as Ezra Pound. Eerie images flash through the half-aware mind. In the midst of a frenzy of frustrated desire, the protagonist fleetingly notes that the morning's newspaper is dated the 32nd. When the sleepy little girl is led into the hotel, she watches a "doubling cat" through her blurred vision...
After unidentified thieves successfully purloined two 150-pound pumpkins in pre-Halloween hijinks, two less clever copycat culprits continued the fruit terrorism...
...approaching Halloween night and we gathered that he and his friends wanted to have in their possession a 150-pound pumpkin," speculated Alan Roth, director of security and safety services...
...manic depressive insomniac who was in love with the guy who worked these hours before me," Karl said and he quickly turned back to he work at the grill. Just then the song "I've Got the Music in Me" blasted from the radio and Karl began to pound greasy hamburger patties on the skillet with the rhythm. "I love this song," he shouted...
...mousse made me happy to be alive." The book is loaded with this sort of gush, although it is hard to believe that Conroy does not know the difference between good and silly writing. Elsewhere, he can make one's mouth water with straightforward description: "I caught a ten-pound sea bass and stuffed it with shrimp and fresh crabmeat, then cooked it over slow coals...