Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mention their weapons, made him think arguing would be imprudent. He ran into other people forced to retreat by the armed men--a Boy Scout troop. After the hunter's call, agent Wall drove out to Tonto. Near an abandoned mine, he found a crater almost big enough to swallow a car. It was recent. Someone had been using powerful explosives...
...remodeling. It was a fine idea, in theory. A low-flow toilet cuts down on water bills and helps save the environment by reducing the amount of water in each flush. But the first time Bob used his, the toilet's flushing action was scarcely strong enough to swallow a wadded-up tissue--never mind more organic waste. The thing backed up so often that Bob finally tore out his environmentally correct bowl and replaced it with an outlaw model he found in a warehouse 300 miles away. "It was," says Bob, "a draining experience...
...candidate receives more than half the vote on June 16, a run-off between the two top finishers could be held as early as July 7. It is in the second round that Yeltsin hopes to win, as those scared that their past may become their future swallow their misgivings and vote for him. Yet even that mathematically plausible scenario is considered dicey. Talk of postponing the elections is the rage in Moscow, and serious observers wonder whether Yeltsin would--or should--yield power if he loses to Zyuganov...
...Quaker Oats, Snapple soft drinks have been proving hard to swallow. Quaker paid $1.7 billion for Snapple in 1994, only to watch the acquisition lose $100 million in 1995. Quaker's stock has fallen from $37.50 to $33 in the past year, even as the market bubbled. So CEO Bill Smithburg is under pressure to get profits flowing again at the $6.3 billion company. The board even canceled his bonus. Quaker's Gatorade sports drink is No. 1 in its category. But the company has more modest aims for Snapple, which has less than 5% of the soft-drink market...
...food," for example, or "You're wet when you sweat." CYC knows nearly a million of these rules now, and when it has another million or so under its belt, Lenat asserts, the program should be savvy enough to need no more spoon feeding. It will just swallow the encyclopedia whole and then ask questions about whatever it doesn't understand...