Word: slug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heavily Democratic territory in Boston's blue-collar Dorchester section. He was greeted warmly at an electrical workers union hall by 500 people waving placards (SINK WITH TED: SWIM WITH RON and southie for reagan). Reagan left Massachusetts to Ford without a fight in 1976; he intends to slug it out there this year, even though the hard-working Bush seems much better organized in the state than any other G.O.P. candidate...
Liddy read him the sentence. After a long silence, Colby grunted. A grunt in CIA-talk means, "I just caught a slug in the gut," or "Sounds like you're novel's coming along nicely...
Yazstrsemski is the 14th major leaguer ever to collect 3000 hits, and the first American Leaguer in history to also slug 400 home runs. Fans flooded the field and the game was stopped for 15 minutes while Yaz accepted the congratulations of his teammates and of the opposing New York Yankees...
Take, Thomas suggests, the case of the nudibranch (a sea slug) and the medusa (a jellyfish) that live in the Bay of Naples. The slug lives with a tiny fragment of the medusa permanently and parasitically attached near its mouth. The vestigial jellyfish apparently is still able to reproduce; its offspring swim off and become normal adult jellyfish. The slug also produces larvae, but these are rather quickly trapped and subsumed by the new jellyfish. Aha, one would think, the jellyfish are getting back at the slugs for prior mutilations. No such thing. "Soon the snails," Thomas writes, "undigested...
Where the uranium slug has been dumped...