Word: thunk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...handheld pointers, video clips and bold-colored charts listing the occasions that Monica and the President exchanged gifts. But by the time the fourth manager, Asa Hutchinson, asserted that "the big question is, does the President return Monica Lewinsky's call? Yes he does," you could almost hear the thunk of Senate foreheads hitting tabletops in stultifying-speech-induced slumber. "For the majority of Americans, who believe that what the President did isn't worthy of impeachment," says TIME senior writer Eric Pooley, "this is the terminus of absurdity...
...Governor named Jesse ("The Body") Ventura, and all week Minnesotans were feeling sort of giddy about it, like Lutherans who've drunk a little more than we meant to and now here we are singing Alley Oop and dancing on the sofa. Who woulda thunk we could get this crazy...
...friend showed me how his Pilot could do everything I wanted. So I thought and I thunk and I thought, and after days of research, the PalmPilot I bought...
...show signs of his extraterrestrial origin, this sock may be your only means of escape. You should never hit your preceptor with it, unless you wish him to write a very long, nonfiction essay about the experience, to be required reading later in the course. (It would begin "Thunk! The brick felt heavy against my skull.") As soon as you sense danger, hurl the brick in the sock through a nearby window and leap out that window to make your escape. It is always best to wear rubber-soled running shoes to your Expos conferences. It's actually best...
...else done, we would take the fancy headline type back to the wooden cases and carefully drop the letters into their compartments, thunk, thunk, thunk, a contented coda to Whitman's bawdy song. And finally we would turn the lights out and close the shop door, taking a last glance at the press dimly highlighted by the glow from street lamps. We were sure it would be there for us the next week...