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literal | melted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2178 | But mindful of Daedalus 's brash son , Icarus , who flew too close to the sun , melted his wings and fell fatally to the sea , they carefully avoid hubris . |
metaphorical | flying | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
121,
127
] | TroFi.o.1691 | Selecting , keeping and replacing the personnel necessary to run the U.S. government is a lot closer to baseball than to flying . |
metaphorical | flying | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
113,
119
] | TroFi.o.1669 | As a first step , the phone company offers a recorded message reproducing what is purported to be the sound of a flying saucer taped in Europe . |
metaphorical | cool | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
34,
38
] | TroFi.o.275 | But at some point the market will cool , so Siemens figures it had better start selling to tomorrow 's customers today . |
literal | fly | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
135,
138
] | TroFi.o.1639 | Ever since President Reagan in February 1986 called for U.S. development of an `` Orient Express , '' a futuristic aircraft that would fly from New York to Tokyo in two hours , MITI 's aerospace mavens have been itching to get Japan into the action . |
metaphorical | targets | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
22,
29
] | TroFi.o.3607 | The firm 's list also targets several truly out-of-favor stocks , namely Primerica , the financial-services concern , and retailers Dayton Hudson and Zayre . |
literal | dance | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
80,
85
] | TroFi.o.361 | Mr. Waters sets his sights on the `` hairhoppers , '' the polished amateurs who dance on `` The Corny Collins Show , '' his version of `` American Bandstand . ''/'' |
metaphorical | evaporate | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
58,
67
] | TroFi.o.1014 | Social Security surpluses also will help make the deficit evaporate within the next five years . |
metaphorical | melted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
126,
132
] | TroFi.o.2193 | This may tell us more about the pollsters ' wizardry than it does about the candidates , but obviously the Democrats have n't melted away . |
literal | flown | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
49,
54
] | TroFi.o.1598 | A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile . |
metaphorical | destroying | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
76,
86
] | TroFi.o.511 | Weeks later , `` Penthouse finally realized that Dominion was intentionally destroying the deal , '' sought other financing , failed , and had to abandon the project , the judge said . |
metaphorical | poured | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
58,
64
] | TroFi.o.2525 | But in the intervening years , so much criticism has been poured upon Chamberlain 's failed policies that they have dissolved into caricature . |
metaphorical | flooded | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
85,
92
] | TroFi.o.1406 | During most of this decade , apparel prices rose slowly , because low-priced imports flooded into the U.S. and domestic manufacturers tried to stay competitive . |
literal | drink | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
101,
106
] | TroFi.o.764 | Every Oct. 21st since , officers of the Royal Navy gather in formal dress wherever they may be , and drink a toast to `` The Immortal Memory . ''/'' |
metaphorical | pouring | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
75,
82
] | TroFi.o.2565 | U.S. drug agents estimate that about 40 % of all the cocaine and marijuana pouring into America comes through the Bahamas ; of that , at times as much as half may have been run through Bimini , agents say . |
literal | killed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
74,
80
] | TroFi.o.1929 | The failure of a rocket joint touched off the January 1986 explosion that killed the seven Challenger astronauts . |
metaphorical | besieged | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
76,
84
] | TroFi.o.261 | NTN Toyo Bearing Co . , a Japanese firm with plants in the U.S . , is being besieged by potential buyers and has lead times of seven to 13 months . |
literal | pumped | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
77,
83
] | TroFi.o.2609 | Recovery efforts off the coast of Florida had been delayed while the workers pumped toxic gases from the 30-year-old vessel . |
literal | stumbles | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
17,
25
] | TroFi.o.3499 | Every morning he stumbles into work still a wreck from the drugs and booze of the night before , clearly contemptuous of the drudgery set before him . |
literal | dance | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
70,
75
] | TroFi.o.370 | `` Seems like you 'll never make it to the top unless you know how to dance , '' the announcer intones . |
metaphorical | rain | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
44,
48
] | TroFi.o.2665 | Pyongyang would like nothing better than to rain on Seoul 's parade . |
literal | flew | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
44,
48
] | TroFi.o.1376 | Although it never saw combat , the Fortress flew photo mapping missions in Europe . |
literal | eat | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
14,
17
] | TroFi.o.844 | For those who eat only at four-star French restaurants , fajitas are a Tex-Mex specialty -- strips of grilled beef rolled up in flour tortillas with onions , peppers and guacamole . |
metaphorical | dissolve | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
30,
38
] | TroFi.o.597 | If not , Mr. Mitterrand would dissolve parliament and call new elections . |
literal | kill | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
43,
47
] | TroFi.o.1855 | But the Nazis did n't occupy Hungary , and kill half a million Jews , until 1944 . |
metaphorical | stumbled | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
68,
76
] | TroFi.o.3469 | Drafters want to clear up areas of confusion: Some filers this year stumbled over standard deductions on the 1040 long form or over the 1040EZ box asking if they could be claimed as anyone else 's dependents . |
literal | plow | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
93,
97
] | TroFi.o.2449 | Morally repugnant and economically absurd , the scheme would knock over homes and churches , plow up cemeteries and herd the residents into `` urban agro-industrial complexes . ''/'' |
metaphorical | cooled | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
20,
26
] | TroFi.o.314 | Investor enthusiasm cooled considerably in the wake of reports that Lilco 's demand was a bargaining tactic aimed at getting its talks with the state back in high gear . |
metaphorical | attacked | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
61,
69
] | TroFi.o.175 | In his previous handling of the case , Judge Brieant roundly attacked the merits of the Pennzoil judgment . |
literal | attacked | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
97,
105
] | TroFi.o.165 | Here in Masaya , supporters of a group known as the Mothers of Political Prisoners were brutally attacked by turbas in a well-documented incident in March . |
literal | attacking | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
132,
141
] | TroFi.o.234 | The point of this review is not necessarily to let off the Eritreans , who have recently come under deservedly strong criticism for attacking two food convoys , but to demonstrate how famine in northern Ethiopia is part of something much broader and more complex than drought . |
metaphorical | pump | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
108,
112
] | TroFi.o.2593 | The fierce-looking , hairy-chested Mr. Ventura , a ring dangling from one ear , is shown saying , `` Do n't pump trouble . |
metaphorical | besieged | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
7,
15
] | TroFi.o.267 | Though besieged by friends who `` want me to pick them a winner , '' he does n't bet often . |
literal | pumping | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
89,
96
] | TroFi.o.2653 | To make up for some of that loss , Western Pennsylvania Water has brought another of its pumping stations to full capacity . |
metaphorical | pumping | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
193,
200
] | TroFi.o.2652 | There is , of course , a long-established list of `` have '' and `` have not '' sports in the U.S . , but it is ironic that weightlifting ranks with the `` nots '' at a time when Americans are pumping iron in unprecedented numbers . |
literal | eat | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
124,
127
] | TroFi.o.860 | Spirits may be the only solace in a land where the average person earns $ 350 a year and can never expect to have enough to eat . |
literal | eats | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
14,
18
] | TroFi.o.905 | Morty Bennett eats a scallop and shrimp entree at a Chinese restaurant in Miami . |
literal | attack | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
279,
285
] | TroFi.o.120 | American officials have concluded that the Kuwaiti hijacking is the work of a Lebanese Shiite terrorist named Imad Mugniyah who has been trying for more than four years to free his wife 's brother from prison in Kuwait , where he was convicted in 1984 of building a bomb used to attack the U.S. Embassy . |
metaphorical | pump | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
86,
90
] | TroFi.o.2595 | They are irate about new capital-adequacy requirements that force securities firms to pump at least 20 % more capital into reserves . |
literal | flying | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
159,
165
] | TroFi.o.1704 | When flights from Chicago to Islip , N.Y . , started falling behind schedule , the airline discovered that the Federal Aviation Administration had changed the flying route , making the trip 70 miles longer . |
metaphorical | evaporate | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
58,
67
] | TroFi.o.1000 | As to competitive advantages from devaluation , they will evaporate quickly . |
metaphorical | flourish | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
122,
130
] | TroFi.o.1475 | Because of continuing uncertainties associated with the stock market and inflation , he said consumer demand for CDs will flourish if interest rates get nearer to 10 % . |
metaphorical | plant | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
112,
117
] | TroFi.o.2354 | Last week , the ever-clever Michael Kinsley in the Washington Post forged stream after stream of income data to plant his flag: `` Affluent people , far from shouldering an ever-greater share of the tax burden , are n't even keeping up with their rising share of the nation 's income . ''/'' |
metaphorical | planted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
158,
165
] | TroFi.o.2403 | The vandalism occurred Friday and was discovered Saturday when authorities at Manila Memorial Park cemetery received a telephone warning that a bomb had been planted in Aquino 's concrete tomb , a military official said . |
literal | rained | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
3,
9
] | TroFi.o.2681 | It rained hard Saturday night along the Gulf Coast , and on Sunday morning the infield at McKechnie Field here was so wet that grounds crewmen were using plastic bottles to scoop up the standing water . |
literal | killed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
94,
100
] | TroFi.o.1908 | Last month , Thiokol said it settled the last suit with the estates of the seven crew members killed in the Challenger . |
metaphorical | pump | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
191,
195
] | TroFi.o.2594 | There has been a consequent letdown in political suspense ; and , since too many reporters these days cover politics as if it were a form of horse racing , the press is now doing its best to pump drama into the vice presidential nominations . |
literal | flying | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
59,
65
] | TroFi.o.1697 | The locust-control organization said five swarms were seen flying near Asmara , capital of Eritrea , between July 21 and 24 . |
metaphorical | pumping | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
203,
210
] | TroFi.o.2646 | The Reagan administration changed the pattern of 15 years of federal research-and-development spending by slowing to a crawl the growth of civilian research programs , such as energy development , while pumping up defense . |
literal | killed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
27,
33
] | TroFi.o.1900 | Indian troops in Sri Lanka killed 20 Tamil civilians after four soldiers died in an ambush by Tamil rebels , officials in Colombo said . |
metaphorical | withered | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
318,
326
] | TroFi.o.3714 | Describing the hospital-room scene on the day of the assassination attempt , where doctors and technicians were racing to save the life of the stricken leader of the free world , Mr. Speakes volunteers that though President Reagan was a robust 70-year-old , `` he had the body of an older man , with a bit of flab and withered muscles that are dead giveaways that the body is not quite what it used to be . ''/'' |
metaphorical | flooded | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
91,
98
] | TroFi.o.1443 | This has given a sheepskin a rarity value unimagined in the 1970s , when the well-educated flooded the labor market and the cabbie with a doctorate drove his way into national folklore . |
literal | evaporates | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
65,
75
] | TroFi.o.1049 | But past compositions have included `` absorbed water , '' which evaporates at high temperatures , causing the fluids to break down . |
metaphorical | attacking | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
227,
236
] | TroFi.o.223 | Mr. Cardenas 's stunning success in this month 's presidential election , when he took close to a third of the vote and loosened the traditional stranglehold of the Institutional Revolutionary Party , or PRI , illustrated that attacking debt payments wins votes . |
literal | flown | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
25,
30
] | TroFi.o.1610 | The body of al-Wazir was flown to Damascus for burial today . |
metaphorical | melted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
22,
28
] | TroFi.o.2179 | But the Supreme Court melted down my statue when it decided Hazelwood . ''/'' |
metaphorical | pouring | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
9,
16
] | TroFi.o.2559 | Spain is pouring 15 billion pesetas -LRB- $ 122.2 million -RRB- into major new equipment by Ceselsa , a Spanish maker . |
literal | dance | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
80,
85
] | TroFi.o.362 | Mr. Waters sets his sights on the `` hairhoppers , '' the polished amateurs who dance on `` The Corny Collins Show , '' his version of `` American Bandstand . ''/'' |
literal | flew | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
129,
133
] | TroFi.o.1379 | Delta Air Lines said it flew 3.94 billion revenue passenger miles in December , a 26.7 % increase from the 3.11 billion miles it flew in December 1986 . |
metaphorical | pumping | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
3,
10
] | TroFi.o.2625 | By pumping money into coverage of local business , the papers aimed at an affluent and influential audience in their communities . |
literal | attack | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
118,
124
] | TroFi.o.146 | The only thing certain is that a Korean merchant wholly dependent on the good will of his customers would be crazy to attack a black grandmother in a virtually all-black neighborhood -- and Mr. Chung , who cleaned fish for three years to scrape together the money to buy his market , seems anything but crazy . |
literal | dance | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
52,
57
] | TroFi.o.359 | Meanwhile , though , we may ask what will happen to dance back here , where the facilities Brussels has offered Mr. Morris , including a $ 1.5 million annual budget , are apparently not to be thought of . |
metaphorical | killed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
21,
27
] | TroFi.o.1928 | The deal was finally killed by MCA management , Mr. Olson says . |
metaphorical | plow | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
34,
38
] | TroFi.o.2450 | Officials may shut others as they plow through 4 , 000 remaining applications to do business . |
metaphorical | play | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
103,
107
] | TroFi.o.2431 | Mrs. Bush , who disdains what she calls fake public displays of affection by the Dukakises , also will play an important role in her husband 's campaign . |
metaphorical | flooded | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
222,
229
] | TroFi.o.1402 | But in June 1987 , two doctors affiliated with Ueno Fine Chemical Co. reported that in test-tube studies , dextran sulfate was an effective antiviral agent against AIDS. Almost overnight , desperate American AIDS patients flooded Kowa with demands for the drug . |
literal | destroyed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
31,
40
] | TroFi.o.484 | The doctor who removed the IUD destroyed Ms. Murdock-Vaughn 's files in 1979 as part of a routine office cleaning . |
metaphorical | cools | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
6,
11
] | TroFi.o.351 | If it cools off , they worry about lower earnings , which also would hurt the market . |
metaphorical | stumbled | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
104,
112
] | TroFi.o.3490 | The government 's economic program , introduced with much enthusiasm at the beginning of the year , has stumbled clumsily from the start . |
literal | flying | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
58,
64
] | TroFi.o.1693 | Sunworld had recently been operating as a charter airline flying 120 flights a month . |
metaphorical | attacked | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
17,
25
] | TroFi.o.161 | Common Cause has attacked the Ways and Means Committee 's proposal to repeal the $ 3 , 000 limit on the deductibility of congressional living expenses in Washington , D.C . |
literal | pouring | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
197,
204
] | TroFi.o.2552 | Joseph M. Kornick , a principal , says the Minute Maid handle is more comfortably rounded `` to fit adults and children '' and has been placed lower `` to lower the center of gravity '' for easier pouring . |
metaphorical | flourished | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
51,
61
] | TroFi.o.1508 | Stickball -- a street version of baseball that has flourished here since the Depression -- has never been a social climber 's game . |
metaphorical | kill | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
55,
59
] | TroFi.o.1870 | The lawmaker suggested that Thiokol might be trying to kill the advanced-rocket program to ensure that the current rocket is used even longer . |
literal | dissolves | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
12,
21
] | TroFi.o.641 | The cyanide dissolves , or leaches out the gold , and the water is collected at the bottom of the heap for treatment to remove its precious cargo . |
metaphorical | flourish | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
15,
23
] | TroFi.o.1478 | Buyers ' clubs flourish in Manhattan and San Francisco to help the infected and the sick obtain experimental drugs like dextran sulfate , imported from Japan , where it is available over the counter as a way to reduce blood cholesterol . |
metaphorical | dissolving | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
65,
75
] | TroFi.o.649 | The announcement Friday follows a court ruling earlier last week dissolving a preliminary injunction that had prevented the IRS from taking such action . |
metaphorical | wither | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
199,
205
] | TroFi.o.3705 | Some disheartened resistance commanders , after exhausting their stockpiles , strike private peace deals with Afghan leader Najibullah in exchange for control of minor fiefdoms ; other rebel leaders wither away . |
literal | evaporated | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
117,
127
] | TroFi.o.1040 | The problem is partly due to a thermal vacuum switch in the vapor-control system that is supposed to curb release of evaporated gasoline , the EPA said . |
literal | dancing | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
138,
145
] | TroFi.o.393 | And a family in adjacent Hamilton County turned to him after it got little response from local authorities to its complaints about people dancing and praying in a nearby graveyard . |
literal | attacked | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
13,
21
] | TroFi.o.199 | Tamil rebels attacked a village in eastern Sri Lanka , killing at least 16 people in the assault on homes of the majority Sinhalese . |
literal | drink | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
142,
147
] | TroFi.o.775 | Schieffelin & Somerset Co. is beginning a boldly different , big-budget advertising campaign that it hopes will persuade more baby boomers to drink its Johnnie Walker Scotch whisky brands . |
literal | drink | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
34,
39
] | TroFi.o.770 | My impression is that he does n't drink . ''/'' |
literal | killed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
47,
53
] | TroFi.o.1902 | Israeli television said a Palestinian girl was killed during a West Bank protest and Gaza Strip hospital officials said 105 Palestinians were treated for beatings during a general strike there . |
literal | sleeping | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
218,
226
] | TroFi.o.2985 | At the core of the company 's problem is its Peach Bottom nuclear power facility , which the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ordered shut in March 1987 when control-room operators were discovered playing video games and sleeping on the job . |
literal | ate | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
55,
58
] | TroFi.o.110 | But I 'll tell you this: I have n't had a cold since I ate it . |
metaphorical | pumping | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
13,
20
] | TroFi.o.2639 | No one minds pumping Bambi full of lead ; the issue is whether to bring along the dogs as well as the Winchester . |
metaphorical | stumble | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
12,
19
] | TroFi.o.3454 | They do n't stumble over all the mentions of things like thermoplastics , the latest in feather-light composite materials , which replace metal in Stealth airframes . |
metaphorical | dissolving | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
30,
40
] | TroFi.o.645 | If Mr. Icahn is successful in dissolving that agreement , he could seek Pennzoil 's support for his plan , which , like Texaco 's plan , includes a $ 3 billion settlement . |
literal | dance | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
64,
69
] | TroFi.o.353 | And for those of you planning ahead , this year the troupe will dance `` The Nutcracker '' Dec. 1-31 . -LRB- 212 -RRB- 870-5690 . |
metaphorical | attack | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
95,
101
] | TroFi.o.128 | He predicted the opinion `` will open up a can of worms because now any trade organization can attack any trademark claimed by someone else in the industry . ''/'' |
metaphorical | attacked | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
59,
67
] | TroFi.o.173 | In hearings before Mr. Needelman last August , the lawyers attacked the seeming contradictions between the papers ' earlier upbeat statements and ambitious spending , and their more recent statements that the Free Press is failing . |
literal | flown | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
49,
54
] | TroFi.o.1599 | A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile . |
metaphorical | destroyed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
136,
145
] | TroFi.o.460 | But really it is the day that all four Tyrones come face to face with the ghosts that have haunted them and the demons that have nearly destroyed them . |
literal | eat | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
9,
12
] | TroFi.o.858 | Russians eat awful sausage by the ton . |
metaphorical | targeted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
9,
17
] | TroFi.o.3554 | Programs targeted for `` possible privatization '' include some Postal Service operations and the management of minimum-security prisons . |
literal | raining | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
27,
34
] | TroFi.o.2689 | For one thing , it started raining again in mid-July . |
metaphorical | pouring | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
128,
135
] | TroFi.o.2554 | NASA partisans blame the administration for allowing the civilian space agency to drift and deteriorate through the 1980s while pouring vast sums into the Pentagon . |
metaphorical | eating | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
192,
198
] | TroFi.o.893 | The honor of these Pulitzer-predators will be vindicated only if Mr. Anderson does all sorts of demeaning acts pursuant to article 48a of the Civil Code of California , mostly in the order of eating humble pie . |
literal | kill | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
67,
71
] | TroFi.o.1874 | `` If {Shorty} puts down his arms , the campesinos themselves will kill him . ''/'' |
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