Word: swallow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reacting with the ores to form a toxic soup that rises steadily, year after year, like water in a vast bathtub. It's the Berkeley Pit, and it's a man-made wonder of horrific proportions--an oval lake of acidic mining residues so deep that it could swallow an 80-story skyscraper...
Imagine if Ted Kaczynski were younger, hipper and had a brilliantly witty sense of humor. Imagine that instead of writing a lengthy manifesto on the ills of modern society, he chose instead to compress his belief system into simple, easy-to-swallow sound bites for mass consumption: "The future is fake" "Everybody's lying." "Stop breathing." "Progress is over." Rather than spreading his doctrine with letter bombs and threats of destruction, he might instead have devised a quirky, culture-savvy, pink-jacketed novel about the end of the world. He might very well have penned something like Douglas Coupland...
...Hooches" event, in which the contestants had to pick a bottle off the bottom with their teeth. One man, after sticking his face in the water, somehow undid the cap and drank the entire bottle under water. At another promotion, Tatyana, one of the "Hooch Girls," saw someone swallow a lemon whole in a lemon-eating contest, "in one second, I swear," she says...
...Yale's tuition, room and board costs $30,830, Princeton's is $30,465, and Stanford's is $28,870. When tuition is as high as it is, celebrating an increase of any amount--let alone one that is higher than the rate of inflation--is hard to swallow...
...across the market as Buffett called for delivery of more than 42 million oz. of the silver he had bought--after already having some 87 million oz. in tow. Panicky short sellers, who had borrowed silver and sold it in the expectation that the price would fall, had to swallow huge losses to complete the deals. Major buyers of silver like Eastman Kodak, which processes millions of ounces a year into film, faced big increases in raw-material costs. And everywhere families began eyeing grandma's precious flatware as a possible source of cash. "We think...