Word: poured
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cafe? Here some of dey t'ings, cher, dey got on day men-you: Ersters en Brochette ($3.95, $8.95), File Gumbo ($4.25), Egglplant Royale ($4.95), Shrimp Orleans ($7.50), Creole Chicken ($4.45), Cay-john Popcorn ($3.25), Blackened Redfish ($10.95), S'ordfish ($10.95), and Bread Pudding ($.95). Make yo' mouf water! Pour le bouche Opelousas! Ecoutez, you dahlin' you, I can garr-own-tee! Haaahhh...
...food, you know, it not so bad. Not so good either. But what you want, K-Paul's in deh Quarter? Pour le dessert, bread pudding, I swear. . . Est-ce que ma mere etait dans la cuisine...
...observer hears all this with interest and growing thirst. Davis is about to pour glasses of Catamount to illustrate a point he is making when a local dairy farmer arrives to pay for a batch of used barley mash, which he feeds to his cattle. Conversation develops, and the beer remains unpoured. Are there not cows to be milked? Perhaps there is some manure to be shoveled? At last the observer gets his glass of Amber. It is red in cast, bread fresh, with the body of a weight lifter: serious beer. A glass of Gold is similarly muscular, though...
...digital scoreboard turns over a tens digit in any of these categories, a bucket of something, such as embarrassing red ink or even cod scallops, will pour from the ceiling onto the offender. This negative reinforcement hopefully will act as a subtle deterrent, reminding the speaker to curtail unnecessary pseudo-intellectual verbiage in his lectures...
Bush has long been a dangerously awkward speaker. He often sets off in one direction at the beginning of a sentence and wanders off in another before it ends. Metaphors do not track. Phrases with a tinny ring -- "I really went ape" or "I was in deep doo-doo" -- pour out of him involuntarily. Excitable on his feet, a man who lunges for political bait, the Vice President is a high risk in debates...