Word: slurpingly
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Salt-caked, coral-scraped, sunburned and exhausted, Roberts, a 33-year-old chiropractor, returned to his home in Pensacola, Fla., thoroughly pleased with his fishing trip. The plastic bags in his car held some 25 reef fish, captured alive with his Plexiglas "slurp gun," which is one of the latest pieces of equipment used in that fast-growing and prestigious U.S. hobby: collecting saltwater fish...
...local Fascist bullyboys in exchange for her deserter sons' safety, Cesira and daughter take to the mountain roads in a predawn escape. Their next haven is a dirt-floored hut. This time they fall in with a family of peasants who wash their feet in a common basin, slurp up their daily bread-and-bean mush from a common bowl, and sleep on wooden planks padded with corn shucks. But the peasants' manners are not quite so crude as their characters-grasping, thieving, sullen, vicious, cynical...
...slobbing starts as Marine Mitchum, smeared with sweat and beard, rolls over the side of a rubber life raft, staggers through the surf to a palm-fringed island and proceeds, with the hearty cooperation of the sound track, to slurp up several gallons of the nearest fresh-water lagoon. The next thing he sees is a nun, and for all the surprise he shows, the audience might think that nuns just sort of naturally came with tropical islands. But Deborah is dramatically startled to see him. "Naow, le's jus' take it easy, ma'am," says Mitchum...