Word: grunting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week that IBM has yet to offer a way to connect desktop personal computers with the bigger units used by insurance companies, banks and other service-industry giants. Said Carl Williams, manager of information systems at the Doyle Dane Bernbach advertising agency: "It's the mainframes that do the grunt work that runs the company. By leaving them out, IBM fails to address our requirements." Big Blue promises to deliver that kind of system, but declines to say exactly when...
...sometimes klutzy replacement burdened by a certainly klutzy name: the High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV). The manufacturer, AM General Corp., calls it the Hummer. No way, says the Army: that rhymes with bummer. It prefers "the HummVee," hardly a name likely to catch on with the average grunt...
...good at it. I really only bought it because I knew I was coming here." Tinny-sounding melodies of various sorts drift out of the compound's tents and fortified holes in the ground all day long. "I was listening to my radio," explained one grunt in his bunker at Post One, "until I got tired of the Arab music." His own tape player was broken. "I was going to put me on some Deep Purple, but I got ketchup on the batteries." Each Marine is permitted one can of beer a day. Many of them have read more...
...palace entourage, of his wife and of the Shanghailanders who, with Jiang Qing, formed the Gang of Four. "In the old days in Yanan," said one friend, "he would listen first, then talk. Now he talked but would not listen." At the end he would mumble and grunt, interpreters had to bend close to Mao's lips to strain sense from the mumbling. But, by then, all those once close to him had been killed or exiled from his inner court. Jiang Qing transmitted his orders...
...Grunt! Pow! Gnar! Ouch...