Word: suck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later, at Princeton University, Carter was asked about Senator Edward Kennedy's criticism of the Shah. Said he: "I'm not going to tell a master politician how to suck eggs...
...because U.S. oil production facilities are near Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and other large cities. In the first hour after the strike, more than 5 million Americans would be killed by searing heat, explosive force, high winds, fire and crumbling buildings, if the Soviet warheads exploded aboveground. (Airbursts suck up relatively little debris to settle back to earth later as radioactive fallout.) If the Soviet missiles were detonated at ground level, immediate fatalities would drop to about 2.9 million, but an additional 312,000 would die soon afterward from fallout...
...busted women in low-cut night gowns...Dracula's a fun guy. They're bringing him back in a new movie with Frank Langella. I snuck into the theater when he was in Boston with it...hated the production, but Langella was terrific-the most cuddlesome vampire ever to suck a jugular. Laurence Olivier will be Van Helsing-I'm gonna be first in line. Then Werner Herzog has remade Murnau's great Nosferatu-the one where Max Schreck looks like a giant...
...more economical and efficient means of burning wood than is the venerable glowing fireplace. A cheery hearth may be aesthetically appealing but it also wastes more energy than it saves. When wood is burned in an open fireplace, 50% of its energy goes up the chimney. Worse, chimney drafts suck even more heat out of the house itself. Wood stoves, generally priced at $400 to $600, eliminate the waste by putting the fire in an airtight metal chamber that regulates the oxygen flow by means of an adjustable vent. This produces a hotter, slower-burning blaze than in a fireplace...
...whole boatload of American suck'n'roll vanity and self-deprecation. "I'm a actress working as an ad receptionist." "I'm a poet working as a public relations man." Everybody on their way to being someone else somewhere else...