Word: ferreted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ferret. Anheuser-Busch strikes again. As sick as I am of the frogs, and as uncompelling as the lizards are, this ad was hilarious...
Basically, Louie gets a ferret to electrocute the Bud-weis-er frogs, but it doesn't work. The sequel to this commercial shows Louie chewing out the ferret...
This is the best ferret airtime since Arnold Schwarzenegger's character had one as a pet in Kindergarten...
...more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase...
...knows perfectly well what lines he is not supposed to cross, yet time after time he turns big puppy eyes on his mother or father and asks some outrageous question that causes an eruption. Yet despite his mischievous intentions, Mendel asks his questions out of a sincere desire to ferret out the mystery surrounding...