Word: spew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that if I swallowed the seeds along with the grapes, branches would grow out of my ears and the neighbors would hang laundry on them," Bill recalls. "She would warn that if I kept playing with my navel, it was going to pop out and all the air would spew out of my body and I'd fly around backwards, flopping around the room...
...official residence of South Korea's President. The route was blocked off by riot police, who until then had remained out of sight. Within minutes the confrontation erupted into full-scale combat that lasted about two hours. Police fired pepper gas from five "black elephants," truck-mounted guns that spew out canisters at machine-gun speed. The protesters attacked police by hurling stones and tossing fire bombs...
...manages to pull together the disparate strands of the book into something more than a skillful pastiche is his sure touch with his characters and his elegant writing style. While he puts about 10% more-adjectives into a paragraph than I like to see, he avoids the egregious literary spew that the South seems to inspire in its chroniclers...
...happens because a federal regulatory device called an emission- reduction credit allows holders to spew a specified tonnage of toxicants into the air. Result: a $50 million market in ERCs among polluters trying to expand. Such firms buy ERCs, at $3,000 to $10,000 per allowable ton of waste, from companies that have already reduced pollution. The feds say the practice improves the air, because every ERC trade reduces the subsequent waste quota...
Fortunately, Extreme is spared a place in the fascist hall of fame by its own sheer stupidity. Characters constantly spew out little homespun bits of wisdom that are supposed to show how in touch with the real world they are but actually reveal how completely distant they are from even the most generous definition of sanity. Are we supposed to take Rip Torn seriously when he explains that "the federal government is nothing but a bunch of child molesters"? It is the saving grace of Extreme that even if we're supposed to accept these epigrams, we don't have...