Word: spew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ever since the threat of global warming seared its way into public consciousness during the record-breaking heat wave of 1988, environmentalists have been pushing governments to take action. Auto engines, power plants and landfills spew out carbon dioxide, methane and other heat-trapping gases by the ton. Left unchecked, many scientists believe, the buildup in the atmosphere could create the greenhouse effect, boosting temperatures and changing weather patterns in unpredictable, probably destructive ways. At last year's Rio Earth Summit, world leaders agreed that emissions of greenhouse gases should be curbed, but at the insistence...
This is the nexus of a complex communications network designed to allow the Crimson to keep in touch with the world in order to tell its readers what's happening. Letters flow in by the pound while faxes spew out of the business office; the telephone is every modern reporter's best friend...
...word for ocean and the Greek word for earth. And the sea labors to be as close to the original as possible -- if not better. A computer creates perfect tubular waves four or five times a day, manipulating 10 large vacuum pumps that suck water into 40 chambers, then spew it out into surfable crests that allow expert hotdoggers to demonstrate their skills...
Some days we draw rice. Most days we draw blanks. Other days ideas just boil over in our brains during lecture, as molecular orbital theory and all that other chem crap is left far behind as new storylines spew forth as doodles onto notebook paper. Our conversations start to pattern themselves after the set-up and punchline rhthym of the strip. We often fight over the direction things should take, and have nasty things to say about each other...
...pages away, historian Adolph Reed, Jr. criticizes the same artists for "spew[ing] garbled compounds of half-truth, distortion, Afrocentric drivel, and crackerbarrel wisdom." Amiri Baraka, in his uneven but driving essay, inveighs against Spike Lee's forthcoming film, calling it part of the "black bourgeoisie's attack on Malcolm X." Marlon Riggs later labels Baraka's approach mere "rhetoric...