Word: devours
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...archetype of these renegade fright fests is Night of the Living Dead, George Romero's 1968 horror film about ghouls who rise from the grave to devour the living. Made by a bunch of unknowns in Pittsburgh, Pa., for a piddling $114,000, the film has a grainy look, cheesy acting and a preposterous premise. But the characters we root for are eliminated with grisly dispatch, and the claustrophobic tension mounts so ruthlessly that many early filmgoers had to leave the theater midway--in shock. Sequels and imitators notwithstanding, it remains the most terrifying movie ever made...
Some in the Army argue that building a smaller armored force is foolish until key advances have been made, especially in the areas of fuel and ammo, which armored forces devour. Electromagnetic guns, lasers, and new fuel types could allow the Army to achieve its goal of fielding such a force that could fight for two weeks without resupply. But until then, the speed of deployment is mostly dependent on how quickly the Army can set up logistics links. Napoleon's old dictum that an army travels on its stomach remains true today...
...Titans, the last of whom was Chronos, Time. Feisty Chronos, seeking to overthrow his father, turned to his mother for help. Gaia, exhausted by repeated strenuous labor and angered by Uranus' tyranny, supplied her son a sickle with which to castrate his father, her husband. Mother Earth proceeded to devour Uranus's dismembered parts. The blood pouring from this violent deed fertilized the goddess, impregnating her with the Furies and the Giants. Gaia's story continues, recounting fertile "unions" with other deities, another son among them. A fruitful, polygamous man-eater, the original Gaia would have Dr. Lovelock's fruity...
...those committees that would keep their resident blood pure by taking pains to restrict attendance to House members. Leverett HoCo treasurer Matthew T. Feng '01 bitterly recalls when word leaked of their upcoming Taco Bell study break, "Miscellaneous athletes with athletic appetites and teammates in tote" arrived to devour many of the 800 tacos. Although Feng remembers that "lots of tacos did mean lots of love," he confides to FM that Leverett's next Taco Bell study break may be an invitation-only "black-tie burrito bash;" hopefully the attire would deter eaters from using their tee-shirts as doggy...
...poster for sale features a B-movie-style monster picking up a police car, poised to devour...