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metaphorical | dissolve | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.589 | But Mr. Mitterrand has said he would n't dissolve parliament and call new elections unless it voted down his government . |
literal | rained | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
140,
146
] | TroFi.o.2685 | `` Back when I was his age , '' says oldtimer Mr. Van Cleve , pointing to a 13-year-old boy at his lunch table in Uvalde , `` I remember it rained once . ''/'' |
metaphorical | kill | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
74,
78
] | TroFi.o.1866 | People with AIDS , however , should understand that the forces arrayed to kill any proposal to suspend Kefauver are formidable . |
metaphorical | stumbling | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
9,
18
] | TroFi.o.3512 | They 're stumbling through middle age beset by debts , boring jobs , needy parents , unloving children . |
metaphorical | poured | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
9,
15
] | TroFi.o.2541 | They 've poured millions of dollars into lawmakers ' campaign coffers . |
literal | planted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
159,
166
] | TroFi.o.2392 | One million of the acres were already in soil-saving grasses or trees when put into the reserve , and roughly a third of the cropland now idled was previously planted in crops that were not defined by the Agriculture Department as surplus -- meaning a dead loss for consumers and the U.S. economy . |
literal | played | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
119,
125
] | TroFi.o.2437 | Displaying his erudition , however , Mr. Bonin soon says he will handle the position the way Mr. Kasparov himself once played against Grandmaster Ljubomir Ljubojevic , the leading Yugoslav player . |
metaphorical | flooded | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
117,
124
] | TroFi.o.1421 | Now its 12 , 000 acres of manmade hills , soaring granite towers and glistening plazas linked by Venetian canals are flooded with almost a billion dollars in debt . |
metaphorical | cooled | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
27,
33
] | TroFi.o.317 | Takeover speculative ardor cooled in Information Resources . |
metaphorical | pumping | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
78,
85
] | TroFi.o.2644 | Roger Ailes , the man who will guide George Bush 's heavy media campaign , is pumping up his anger like a lineman preparing to crush the opposing quarterback . |
literal | poured | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
180,
186
] | TroFi.o.2535 | Lone Star Industries Inc. says its new cement , Pyrament , is so durable and fast-drying that an airplane can land on it four hours after it is poured , and so versatile it can be poured in almost any temperature . |
literal | pumping | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
171,
178
] | TroFi.o.2650 | The provincial governments of Alberta and Saskatchewan have offered a total of 28.5 million Canadian dollars -LRB- $ 23.2 million -RRB- to assist in well drilling , water pumping and other relief activities . |
literal | killed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
147,
153
] | TroFi.o.1915 | Officials in West Germany prepared for today 's start of a trial of a Shiite Moslem for the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet in which a U.S. sailor was killed . |
literal | kill | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
128,
132
] | TroFi.o.1849 | As Bismarck wrote more than a century ago: `` I , who prepare to go to war , kill thousands , the Christians in the name of God kill millions . ''/'' |
metaphorical | flourishing | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
31,
42
] | TroFi.o.1528 | Spanish-speaking television is flourishing as well -- providing better opportunities to reach the Hispanic audience . |
metaphorical | cooling | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
108,
115
] | TroFi.o.329 | But several analysts predict the Fed will push short-term rates slightly higher later this year in hopes of cooling the economy and restraining inflation pressures . |
metaphorical | plowing | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
75,
82
] | TroFi.o.2491 | Texas is indeed the most dramatic and scandalous example of S & L managers plowing money into dubious projects , often with less than an arms-length relationship with developers and totally unrealistic estimates of the potential income streams of the commercial and residential buildings they were financing . |
metaphorical | flooded | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
24,
31
] | TroFi.o.1452 | `` We 're already being flooded by inquiries from many major companies as to how -LRB- the board -RRB- can do this . ''/'' |
metaphorical | pumping | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
40,
47
] | TroFi.o.2632 | Industry watchers respect Genentech for pumping such a large chunk of capital into its basic science program , and for preserving its enviable scientific edge , but the investment is n't expected to yield products for several years . |
metaphorical | cooling | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
123,
130
] | TroFi.o.342 | The rate increase by West Germany was a surprise , however , because some economists thought the Bundesbank would n't risk cooling its domestic economy . |
literal | attacked | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
48,
56
] | TroFi.o.171 | In Greece , an official said the terrorists who attacked the liner in the Aegean Sea may have been pro-Iranian Arabs trying to hijack it . |
metaphorical | attack | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
146,
152
] | TroFi.o.132 | If so , human cells may also make similar proteins -- potentially confusing immune cells that target foreign stress proteins and inducing them to attack a person 's own cells . |
literal | killing | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
53,
60
] | TroFi.o.1956 | A bomb exploded in India 's northern Haryana state , killing at least 15 people and wounding about 25 others . |
metaphorical | targets | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
3,
10
] | TroFi.o.3606 | It targets a very different crowd from the white-collar clientele of Federal 's `` front-door '' document-delivery business , and the company has had to fine-tune its marketing . |
literal | stumbled | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
28,
36
] | TroFi.o.3465 | By the time `` Trovatore '' stumbled in for the last time two weeks ago , only the Heimlich maneuver could have helped Franco Bonanome get through `` Di quella pira '' ; an old buzz saw , Fiorenza Cossotto , was rasping away at the gypsy 's music ; and Leona Mitchell drifted from pillar to pillar and all too often from the score . |
literal | dancing | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
11,
18
] | TroFi.o.399 | Instead of dancing they watch rock video . ''/'' |
metaphorical | attacked | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
29,
37
] | TroFi.o.211 | `` Otherwise we will also be attacked . ''/'' |
literal | drank | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
66,
71
] | TroFi.o.748 | So the kids gave Mom a watch , said a couple of nice things , and drank a retirement toast in her honor . |
literal | stumbled | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
114,
122
] | TroFi.o.3481 | Mike Trial , a passenger on the ill-fated fishing trip , testified in probate court last May that Mrs. Von Bergen stumbled into him on the deck of the boat and that they fell overboard . |
metaphorical | stumble | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
19,
26
] | TroFi.o.3447 | But expert systems stumble on many problems involving fuzzy data , since they require too many rules covering too many variations . |
metaphorical | flooded | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
40,
47
] | TroFi.o.1444 | When it was first dedicated , residents flooded local newspapers with letters saying they hated it ; they likened it to a banana or a kid relieving himself from a bridge . |
metaphorical | cools | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
28,
33
] | TroFi.o.352 | When the Detroit Free Press cools down . |
metaphorical | cool | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
105,
109
] | TroFi.o.283 | Observers said the surprise move , just before the four-day midautumn festival holiday , was designed to cool the stock market investment craze . |
literal | drink | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
91,
96
] | TroFi.o.762 | Coke is even directly attacking coffee 's breakfast appeal with radio ads urging people to drink something cold to come `` alive in the morning . ''/'' |
literal | drinking | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
149,
157
] | TroFi.o.813 | When sentencing a criminal , the chief justice of the country 's Supreme Court takes into consideration whether the felon has atoned for his sins by drinking sakau with the victim 's family . |
literal | destroyed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
80,
89
] | TroFi.o.469 | Last year , Mexico claimed that the equivalent of 6 , 200 acres of poppies were destroyed , up from 5 , 900 acres the previous year . |
metaphorical | cool | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
88,
92
] | TroFi.o.293 | The Tokyo Stock Exchange has twice this year raised margin requirements in an effort to cool the Tokyo market 's sharp rally , but share prices have continued upward as the moves were widely viewed as , if anything , healthy and reassuring . |
metaphorical | cool | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
121,
125
] | TroFi.o.294 | The United Kingdom 's chancellor of the exchequer , Nigel Lawson , said the country has tightened its monetary policy to cool a consumer spending spree and bolster weak savings and investment levels . |
literal | plant | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
19,
24
] | TroFi.o.2358 | The moshav did n't plant melons this winter , opting instead for crops such as cotton and wheat that can be harvested by machine . |
literal | destroy | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
10,
17
] | TroFi.o.445 | `` People destroy coral reefs that take thousands of years to build , affecting all the fish that use it for food and shelter , just for a piece of decoration , '' says Mr. McCloud . |
literal | eating | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
25,
31
] | TroFi.o.901 | `` Who said , 'No one 's eating any ' ? '' he snapped . |
metaphorical | eats | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
186,
190
] | TroFi.o.903 | Asked about the resonating valence bond theory of superconductivity , one of the Enquirer 's young female sources comments , `` RVB is like . .. when you eat thallium and your boyfriend eats thorium . .. and then you kiss . ''/'' |
metaphorical | danced | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
55,
61
] | TroFi.o.375 | He proposed what ministers in many countries have only danced around -- movement toward a global fixed-rate system , possibly linked to gold . |
metaphorical | playing | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
134,
141
] | TroFi.o.2441 | As voters trooped to the polls and caucus locations in the Northern Plains , Mr. Robertson accused Vice President Bush 's campaign of playing a part in the disclosures about the sex life of television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart . |
literal | destroy | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
15,
22
] | TroFi.o.450 | `` You have to destroy another human being , '' Mr. Espinosa says . |
metaphorical | slept | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
43,
48
] | TroFi.o.3009 | After Charlie gets Karen to admit that she slept with Bobby to get him to choose her `` worthwhile '' project , Bobby reverts to type: He and his buddy will make the prison film after all and become rich , rich , rich . |
literal | destroyed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
46,
55
] | TroFi.o.477 | Police , meanwhile , raided Arab villages and destroyed the homes of suspected activists . |
metaphorical | flourishes | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
28,
38
] | TroFi.o.1517 | International collaboration flourishes between the major laboratories . |
metaphorical | eat | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
49,
52
] | TroFi.o.864 | The latter cells act normally as scavengers that eat up invading organisms , but also may be responsible for cell-to-cell infection of the AIDS virus . |
metaphorical | attacked | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
35,
43
] | TroFi.o.210 | `` A Bright Shining Lie '' will be attacked by those who have trimmed their judgments to this decade 's prevailing winds . |
literal | dance | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
96,
101
] | TroFi.o.366 | Tomorrow night at New York 's swank Pierre Hotel , 200 advertising executives in black tie will dance to the jazz of Ann Hampton Callaway and dine on grilled salmon , filet of beef Peregourdine and pastry tulips filled with praline ice cream . |
metaphorical | stumbled | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
72,
80
] | TroFi.o.3471 | Finding such a fecund gold field came as a surprise to Reynolds , which stumbled across the precious metal when it was looking for bauxite , a claylike substance that holds alumina , the basic ingredient in aluminum ingot . |
metaphorical | evaporating | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
131,
142
] | TroFi.o.1056 | Weather is dominating the soybean market earlier than usual this year because the nation 's once-burdensome stockpiles are rapidly evaporating . |
literal | drink | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
200,
205
] | TroFi.o.756 | After all , like any worthwhile hero , Fred was struggling -- to be a good father , to make movies , to reconcile his fantasy life with the domesticity he 'd settled into , to stay in shape and still drink lots of Budweiser . |
literal | flying | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
39,
45
] | TroFi.o.1673 | But the Warsaw Pact is only 15 minutes flying time from Switzerland , and Swiss skies thus represent a self-contained defense sector at Europe 's core . |
metaphorical | withered | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
16,
24
] | TroFi.o.3718 | Love shrank and withered , and all that remained was a quickening of the pulse , a rise in blood pressure and stomach contractions chasing each other in a horrible loneliness ; the loneliness of the wave absorbed by the sand , which never returns to the sea . |
metaphorical | pour | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
34,
38
] | TroFi.o.2502 | But it 's another thing to simply pour money into a fiscal black hole . |
literal | planted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
159,
166
] | TroFi.o.2374 | Few things give him more satisfaction now , it seems , than the hundreds of roses , fruit trees and berry bushes the 57-year-old Mr. Lance and a grandson have planted together . |
metaphorical | dancing | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
112,
119
] | TroFi.o.414 | Yet a stroll through any department store makes it plain that `` yuppie puppies '' have visions of dollar-signs dancing in their heads . |
metaphorical | melt | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
40,
44
] | TroFi.o.2167 | He talks of a `` debt cone '' that will melt down once consumers and businesses realize it does n't pay to borrow at high real interest rates to buy assets whose values are n't rising as fast as they were . |
metaphorical | targeting | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
21,
30
] | TroFi.o.3580 | Dole strategists are targeting areas of Missouri , Oklahoma , Maryland and North Carolina . |
literal | destroyed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
22,
31
] | TroFi.o.473 | Old clothes are often destroyed and new ones donned ; indoctrination is given in social mores and religious beliefs . |
metaphorical | pumping | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
115,
122
] | TroFi.o.2619 | Asset managers and institutions , which have been selling some of their old OTC favorites for two days now , began pumping proceeds into former OTC high-flyers , mostly issues that plummeted in the crash . |
literal | flying | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
59,
65
] | TroFi.o.1674 | But the resolution probably rests more on politics than on flying skill and commercial expertise . |
metaphorical | flooded | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
118,
125
] | TroFi.o.1445 | While investors generally reacted either indifferently or negatively to the dozens of quarterly earnings reports that flooded the market , there were a few exceptions . |
literal | flew | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
43,
47
] | TroFi.o.1384 | For the year to date , the airline said it flew 9.51 billion revenue passenger miles , up 27.6 % from 7.45 billion miles a year earlier . |
literal | attacked | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
95,
103
] | TroFi.o.201 | The best of show in painting , Oleg Stavrowsky 's 40-inch by 72-inch oil of a stagecoach being attacked by bandits , went for $ 14 , 000 . |
metaphorical | flourishing | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
99,
110
] | TroFi.o.1530 | These and other figures from a 62 , 000-household survey conducted by the Census Bureau describe a flourishing economy in which the fruits of prosperity are n't equally shared by all Americans . |
literal | danced | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
175,
181
] | TroFi.o.377 | In company with Susan Jaffe , Christine Dunham and Leslie Browne , Mikhail Baryshnikov , formerly of Leningrad 's Kirov Ballet , and now director of American Ballet Theatre , danced the revised version of Balanchine 's sublime `` Apollo '' with a blend of spontaneity and concentration that charged the entire evening with wonder . |
metaphorical | cooling | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
171,
178
] | TroFi.o.341 | The latest rumor yesterday was that International Business Machines Corp . , which earlier had been reported to be planning to license certain Next software programs , is cooling to the idea of using the programs extensively . |
literal | destroyed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
5,
14
] | TroFi.o.489 | They destroyed 450 , 000 acres of sugar beets and other crops . |
metaphorical | ate | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
141,
144
] | TroFi.o.117 | `` Suddenly with Monday , they not only had to do an enormous amount of selling , they had an enormous holdover , and the front-runners just ate them alive , '' said Mr. Kirby . |
metaphorical | cooled | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
54,
60
] | TroFi.o.325 | `` That remark -LRB- of the official -RRB- definitely cooled the heels of the bulls , '' said Paul Clohesy , chief dealer at Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. in New York . |
metaphorical | cooled | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
138,
144
] | TroFi.o.309 | But the latest-quarter results were about flat with the second quarter 's $ 7.2 million , or 17 cents a share , as the rate of new orders cooled a bit from the previous period 's hot pace . |
metaphorical | pour | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
92,
96
] | TroFi.o.2503 | Every day his troops gather under the green , red and black banner of black nationalism and pour out a stream of racial abuse . |
metaphorical | pour | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
19,
23
] | TroFi.o.2508 | Money continues to pour into venture-capital funds , but investors are becoming increasingly selective about the partnerships with which they place money . |
literal | fly | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
35,
38
] | TroFi.o.1642 | Hawaiians welcome long weekends to fly to the mainland ; `` I 've done it myself , '' says Fidencio Mares , a vice president of Pacific Resources , Honolulu . |
metaphorical | evaporates | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
19,
29
] | TroFi.o.1052 | `` The specialness evaporates when a hands-on operation becomes a finger on a monolithic hand . ''/'' |
metaphorical | cooling | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
83,
90
] | TroFi.o.326 | A surprisingly strong October employment report , implying that the economy is n't cooling off as fast as many investors had hoped , could force a sharp retreat in stock prices today , he said . |
metaphorical | play | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
24,
28
] | TroFi.o.2434 | `` We 'd prefer to soft-play that kind of stuff . ''/'' |
metaphorical | dancing | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
44,
51
] | TroFi.o.398 | In interviews , he says , `` you 're always dancing , always having to show your best side , every day trying to be up when you already know what the outcome will be . ''/'' |
metaphorical | stumbled | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
86,
94
] | TroFi.o.3480 | London share prices finished a bumpy session little changed Monday , after the market stumbled on news of an unexpected rise in U.K. interest rates . |
metaphorical | dancing | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
74,
81
] | TroFi.o.396 | He has been in public life a long time , and no large skeletons have come dancing out of the closet yet . |
metaphorical | flooded | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
46,
53
] | TroFi.o.1411 | In the following decade , the Federal Reserve flooded the banks with reserves , providing the raw material for BankAmerica 's profligate lending policies while also creating a spiraling inflation . |
literal | rained | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
63,
69
] | TroFi.o.2688 | `` The most harrowing time is when it rains , and this year it rained every single day except for two days in six weeks . |
metaphorical | attacked | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
80,
88
] | TroFi.o.209 | Without the boost in the capital-gains rate , congressional liberals would have attacked the tax reform plan for leaning too far in favor of the rich . |
metaphorical | cooling | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
80,
87
] | TroFi.o.332 | Foreign central bankers like to think that with U.S. economic growth apparently cooling , the Federal Reserve is less compelled to further tighten monetary policy before the November presidential election . |
literal | pumping | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
311,
318
] | TroFi.o.2618 | A prepared statement from Dr. Lenfant 's office , read by an institute spokesman , said the institute plans to refocus its resources on the smaller , `` simple and reliable '' left ventricular assist devices -- half-heart pumps that may be implanted in tandem with the real heart to boost the power of its main pumping chamber . |
metaphorical | pumping | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
103,
110
] | TroFi.o.2643 | Philip Morris could be forced to deal with the same problems it has struggled with at General Foods -- pumping new life into old products . |
literal | rains | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
150,
155
] | TroFi.o.2696 | Beginning this week , says Steve Freed , an agricultural analyst for Dean Witter Reynolds in Chicago , the corn yield will drop 5 % for every week it rains less than normal . |
literal | rains | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
105,
110
] | TroFi.o.2697 | Gustave de La France , an old farmer who lives deep in the bald mountains near Hinche , says: `` When it rains , the spirits in the rocks are nourished , so the rocks grow larger . ''/'' |
metaphorical | targeting | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
16,
25
] | TroFi.o.3576 | Because genetic targeting marries sophisticated organic chemistry with molecular genetics , Gilead says it sidesteps some of the messier problems of conventional biotechnology -- particularly the manufacture of human proteins . |
literal | pours | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
49,
54
] | TroFi.o.2574 | As each diver plunges into a cage , Mr. Roessler pours a smelly dipper of chum on top of him: the initiation rite . |
literal | stumbling | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
35,
44
] | TroFi.o.3509 | I ca n't locate it in two hours of stumbling around Acha , even though I ask a dozen passers-by . |
metaphorical | flourish | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
94,
102
] | TroFi.o.1490 | The broad argument of Mr. Levin 's book , within whose parameters all his wonderful analogies flourish , is considerably overstated . |
literal | killed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
107,
113
] | TroFi.o.1893 | Fidel Ramos , armed forces chief of staff , blamed the Communists for the deaths of 50 % of the candidates killed in pre-election violence , though personal rivalries and the settling of old scores appeared in many instances to be stronger motives . |
metaphorical | kill | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
9,
13
] | TroFi.o.1851 | Bicycles kill far more children than handguns . |
metaphorical | attack | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
120,
126
] | TroFi.o.119 | According to this view , a work of art is an extension of the personality of the artist ; to alter or mutilate it is to attack the very personality of the artist . |
metaphorical | dancing | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
132,
139
] | TroFi.o.401 | Mr. McVeigh , a seven-year Smith Barney veteran , said his department was profitable until the crash and until Primerica `` started dancing on my head . ''/'' |
literal | drank | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
6,
11
] | TroFi.o.754 | `` We drank a lot of tea . ''/'' |
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