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metaphorical
sleep
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 114, 119 ]
TroFi.o.2970
The focus on takeover issues provided market players with a chance to `` keep the juices flowing without going to sleep , '' said Edward P. Nicoski , a market analyst at Piper Jaffray & Hopwood , Minneapolis .
metaphorical
pumped
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 257, 263 ]
TroFi.o.2608
Performing his own compositions , traditional R & B tunes , zydeco originals and his interpretations of rock numbers , Buck and the band spit out the kind of crackling music that 's been missing since the heyday of Stax Records , when Booker T. and the MGs pumped a driving rhythm behind Sam & Dave , Carla Thomas and Otis Redding .
literal
eat
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 62, 65 ]
TroFi.o.843
Creating the special food solved the problem of what he could eat on future flights , but supplying fare for astronauts seemed limited as a business concept .
metaphorical
plowed
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 152, 158 ]
TroFi.o.2470
Mr. Williams thus launched a divestiture binge that ended only last year , ultimately raising more than $ 1.2 billion in cash -- money that the company plowed not only into reducing debt and upgrading its its natural-gas pipelines , but also into transforming old pipelines into new telephone lines .
literal
plowing
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 15, 22 ]
TroFi.o.2495
`` We 've been plowing a lot of new furrows , '' says Richard Burket of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co . , Decatur , Ill .
literal
targeted
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 24, 32 ]
TroFi.o.3562
The peace lobby , which targeted the B-1 , virtually compelled President Carter to cancel the plane , made the MX inevitable and got the B-1 anyway .
metaphorical
flourish
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 98, 106 ]
TroFi.o.1483
Indeed , the one truly revolutionary asssumption at loose in the world now is economic: Economies flourish in free markets .
literal
killed
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 92, 98 ]
TroFi.o.1898
In 1983 , North Korean agents are believed to have set off a bomb in Rangoon , Burma , that killed four South Korean cabinet ministers and 13 other Koreans in what may have been an attempt on the life of then-President Chun Doo Hwan .
literal
melting
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 31, 38 ]
TroFi.o.2201
Great ; when they 've finished melting , we 'll all have stew .
literal
flying
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 169, 175 ]
TroFi.o.1702
Under a temporary restraining order entered early this month , Judge Parker barred Eastern from eliminating the jobs , but specifically permitted the company to cut its flying .
metaphorical
targeted
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 60, 68 ]
TroFi.o.3567
Two more of Sassy magazine 's largest advertisers have been targeted for a letterwriting campaign by Liberty Report , a newspaper published by Rev. Jerry Falwell 's Moral Majority .
literal
plowed
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 70, 76 ]
TroFi.o.2477
The soil was so rocky that they had to do something with the boulders plowed up in their fields ; dry stone walls were built in other , scattered parts of the U.S . , but in smaller numbers .
metaphorical
attack
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 68, 74 ]
TroFi.o.150
This avoidance of tradition gets reinforced by the many critics who attack as unrealistic , and possibly immoral , any effort to portray the Vietnam experience as similar to that of World War I , World War II or Korea .
literal
killed
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 106, 112 ]
TroFi.o.1917
Pravda said an Azerbaijan metalworker went on trial for murder for his part in February ethnic riots that killed at least 32 in the Soviet republic .
metaphorical
cooling
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 173, 180 ]
TroFi.o.336
Jack Laporte , a mutual-fund manager at T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. in Baltimore , says people can find a reason to worry whether the economy shows signs of heating up or cooling off .
metaphorical
targeted
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 66, 74 ]
TroFi.o.3543
In moving against the 28-year-old Mr. Schmuckler , the CFTC staff targeted one of Wall Street 's computerized-trading wizards .
literal
fly
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 70, 73 ]
TroFi.o.1649
Mr. Petee said one man was so afraid his boss was going to ask him to fly that he started his own business .
metaphorical
plow
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 48, 52 ]
TroFi.o.2458
`` Americans regard as safe something you could plow into a wall without hurting yourself , '' he said .
literal
drank
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 32, 37 ]
TroFi.o.740
Here his father , a shoemaker , drank vodka , and here his mother nourished her son 's ambitions .
metaphorical
dissolve
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 113, 121 ]
TroFi.o.587
And Ronnie Graham was so hip a laid-back comic that sometimes he did n't have to say a word to have the audience dissolve in laughter .
literal
play
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 51, 55 ]
TroFi.o.2433
`` Just girls play with Barbie dolls and just boys play with GI Joe , '' she complains .
literal
sleeping
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 222, 230 ]
TroFi.o.2998
The plant in Delta , Pa . , about 45 miles down the Susquehanna River from Three Mile Island , was ordered to be closed after some of Peach Bottom 's reactor operators were found playing video games and others were caught sleeping at the controls .
literal
kill
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 173, 177 ]
TroFi.o.1864
Mr. Weiss suggests that the new approach , once developed , could be used in combination with CD4: The CD4 would handle the free-floating viruses , while the new drug would kill infected cells .
literal
dance
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 11, 16 ]
TroFi.o.354
Anyone can dance the hokey-pokey .
literal
plant
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 18, 23 ]
TroFi.o.2349
But the closer to plant capacity the economy is operating , the faster low unemployment pushes up costs and prices .
literal
pour
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 271, 275 ]
TroFi.o.2506
It 's little wonder , then , that Susan has taken to escaping into the company of her delightfully charming , exceedingly attractive , immensely rich fantasy family: an adoring husband , a devoted daughter and a frothy younger brother whose only occupation in life is to pour yet another round of champagne -- `` champers , '' as he prefers to call it -- for the four of them .
metaphorical
evaporated
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 160, 170 ]
TroFi.o.1047
`` As the amount of copper available for delivery rose above the number of contracts that had to be satisfied , the threat of a squeeze ' in the March contract evaporated , '' said William O'Neill , research director for Elders Futures Inc . , New York .
literal
besieged
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 14, 22 ]
TroFi.o.269
When radicals besieged his hotel while he was visiting Seoul last week , he promised them he would make yet another effort to play up to North Korea -- by renewing the offer to let the North host several Olympic events .
metaphorical
evaporate
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 81, 90 ]
TroFi.o.1010
Long-term interest rates will plummet to their lowest level in 25 years as fears evaporate about swollen budget deficits , rising inflation and an over-leveraged corporate America .
metaphorical
evaporated
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 58, 68 ]
TroFi.o.1026
But some of the hopeful signs that fostered such optimism evaporated by spring .
literal
killed
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 66, 72 ]
TroFi.o.1889
But in talking with the FBI agent , the man not only denied he 'd killed anyone , he said that he had n't escaped from prison , that the warden had simply told him to leave one day after more than 20 years behind bars .
metaphorical
dissolves
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 137, 146 ]
TroFi.o.640
Most American cities show to their best advantage when seen from a height or a distance , at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction .
literal
flooded
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 89, 96 ]
TroFi.o.1423
Osman Geragandi Koko looked at the mounds of mud above the surface of water covering the flooded shanty town of Jebel Kusha .
metaphorical
destroyed
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 57, 66 ]
TroFi.o.465
In a test against listeria grown in cole slaw , lysozyme destroyed it without affecting the quality of the food .
literal
attacking
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 44, 53 ]
TroFi.o.229
Sparrows used to have a rep for selectively attacking yellow crocuses such as `` E.A .
metaphorical
pour
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 157, 161 ]
TroFi.o.2510
Our view is that the Russians and Cubans figured this out some time ago , which is why , despite Mr. Reagan 's occasional speeches , they never hesitated to pour advisers and war materiel by the ton into Nicaragua .
metaphorical
pour
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 11, 15 ]
TroFi.o.2500
As clients pour into the issues , prices jump .
metaphorical
eating
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 77, 83 ]
TroFi.o.892
The chemicals , widely used in refrigerants and styrofoam , are suspected of eating away the Earth 's protective ozone layer .
metaphorical
flourishing
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 174, 185 ]
TroFi.o.1525
In many of these countries , voters are restive as democracy fails to ease the problems of economic stagnation , onerous debt and the massive corruption that accompanies the flourishing drug trade .
metaphorical
flourish
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 24, 32 ]
TroFi.o.1468
A talent like his would flourish best in a relatively genteel and restrained political culture -- or , failing that , in a parliamentary system where he could be handed a safe seat and told to stop worrying .
metaphorical
target
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 46, 52 ]
TroFi.o.3519
Mr. Story thinks Mr. Holmes a Court will soon target acquisitions .
metaphorical
eat
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 201, 204 ]
TroFi.o.870
With its latest acquisition , Cartier , which is 46.8 % -owned by Rothmans International PLC of Britain , will control more than 40 % of the $ 2.2 billion international luxury-watch market and aims to eat into the market share of the other leader , Rolex , Mr. Perrin said .
literal
plowed
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 3, 9 ]
TroFi.o.2464
He plowed afoot behind a mule , picked cotton and hoed peanuts .
metaphorical
destroys
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 5, 13 ]
TroFi.o.517
This destroys cancerous cells but also wipes out the patient 's `` good '' white blood cells that guard the immune system , leaving a patient vulnerable for almost a month to death by infection .
metaphorical
besieged
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 11, 19 ]
TroFi.o.254
A Congress besieged by special interests passed Smoot-Hawley , and a Republican President too sensitive to business interests signed it .
literal
cooled
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 17, 23 ]
TroFi.o.320
The mold is then cooled and dried and the lid peeled off .
literal
cooling
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 38, 45 ]
TroFi.o.348
They can generate such heat they need cooling fans ; trunk-mounting avoids turning the passenger compartment into a blast furnace .
metaphorical
eat
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 208, 211 ]
TroFi.o.846
Here is how it works: Conventional plastics are composed of repeating hydrocarbon molecules , called polymers , which are derived from petroleum . -LRB- The lengthy chains are too long for micro-organisms to eat ; that is what makes plastic so resistant to decay. -RRB-/-RRB-
metaphorical
flourishing
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 55, 66 ]
TroFi.o.1524
Imports grew at a fast rate , he said , because of the flourishing re-export trade and , to a lesser extent , because of strong domestic demand .
literal
cooled
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 129, 135 ]
TroFi.o.315
Japanese companies already are at the forefront of development of an older generation of superconductors , those that have to be cooled almost to absolute zero .
literal
flying
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 44, 50 ]
TroFi.o.1683
In ground tests , parts keep fracturing and flying apart .
literal
pump
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 72, 76 ]
TroFi.o.2598
Under the pact , Ashland will treat the contaminated soil , and it will pump and treat ground water to meet drinking-water standards , among other things .
literal
eating
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 121, 127 ]
TroFi.o.894
Then he packed the fish cavity with plastic bags full of ice to maintain freshness . -LRB- After all , somebody would be eating his models when he was done with them. -RRB-/-RRB-
literal
flying
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 55, 61 ]
TroFi.o.1675
Can Congress encourage democracy in other countries by flying foreigners here to watch it fight over the budget ?
metaphorical
dissolved
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 80, 89 ]
TroFi.o.617
In May , Pinnacle said the partnership between SunCor and Mr. Diddy had been `` dissolved '' so that SunCor could control development of the property that the partnership had acquired , but Pinnacle did n't give further details of his departure .
metaphorical
besieged
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 18, 26 ]
TroFi.o.265
The park has been besieged for nearly three months by dry weather and fires that have charred more than half its 2.2 million acres .
literal
flourish
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 130, 138 ]
TroFi.o.1489
The astronauts also grew samples of proteins used in AIDS and cancer research that are difficult to make on Earth , but which may flourish under near-weightless conditions .
metaphorical
planted
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 31, 38 ]
TroFi.o.2400
The crash was blamed on a bomb planted by Sikh terrorists .
literal
attacking
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 89, 98 ]
TroFi.o.218
From the 14th century to Corregidor in 1942 , such forts had to be taken by storm before attacking ships could pass .
metaphorical
eating
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 19, 25 ]
TroFi.o.898
`` I thought I was eating him alive , '' recalled a rueful Mr. Bailey of a long-ago debate .
metaphorical
dissolving
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 87, 97 ]
TroFi.o.647
Jamie Securities Inc . , once one of Wall Street 's most powerful arbitrage firms , is dissolving because of the continuing legal problems of John A. Mulheren Jr . , its managing partner arrested for allegedly threatening to kill insider trader Ivan F. Boesky .
literal
raining
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 6, 13 ]
TroFi.o.2690
It 's raining . ''/''
literal
drink
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 30, 35 ]
TroFi.o.771
Now , to persuade more men to drink diet Coke , Coca-Cola Co. is enlisting professional football players .
metaphorical
dissolve
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 173, 181 ]
TroFi.o.609
Yet when Mr. Blackwell asked Ms. Pfeiffer to relinquish her title to Cary Brokaw , the man she 'd hired to run marketing and distribution , she preferred to see the company dissolve .
metaphorical
stumbled
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 27, 35 ]
TroFi.o.3477
In his excitement , he has stumbled into hot-dog territory with naivete , which is characteristic of the big , brash and growing metropolis on the banks of Lake Michigan .
metaphorical
melt
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 13, 17 ]
TroFi.o.2170
She seems to melt a little ; she fits in better with Yefim 's family .
metaphorical
target
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 94, 100 ]
TroFi.o.3518
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
pump
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 5, 9 ]
TroFi.o.2596
They pump their arms and wiggle their hips vigorously , producing a motion that Red Smith once likened to that of earthworms out after a thunderstorm .
metaphorical
stumbled
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 54, 62 ]
TroFi.o.3468
Despite such advantages , News Corp. has occasionally stumbled .
metaphorical
cooled
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 73, 79 ]
TroFi.o.307
But , he said , armed troops loyal to the Panamanian dictator `` kind of cooled that down . ''/''
literal
killed
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 33, 39 ]
TroFi.o.1945
Two Arabs aboard the vessel were killed , and three others were captured after the boat was intercepted by an Israeli patrol vessel off the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre .
literal
attacked
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 97, 105 ]
TroFi.o.166
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
dissolving
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 182, 192 ]
TroFi.o.650
The large study , involving 17 , 187 patients treated at 417 hospitals in North America , Europe and Australia , provided the strongest evidence yet that the emergency use of a clot dissolving drug can save lives , said researchers involved in the clinical trial .
metaphorical
cooled
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 17, 23 ]
TroFi.o.313
If the story has cooled , it is because Speaker Wright and the Democratic caucus pulled the plug at the right moment .
literal
flew
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 46, 50 ]
TroFi.o.1393
Seeking new tactics , Mr. Corella last summer flew to the Philippines to meet leaders of the popular uprising that ousted the Marcos regime in 1986 .
metaphorical
plows
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 61, 66 ]
TroFi.o.2497
In retelling the story of Freud 's life and work , Peter Gay plows a furrow already dug deep by many previous Freud biographers and historians of psychoanalysis .
metaphorical
pumped
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 329, 335 ]
TroFi.o.2599
Among the hundreds of pages of affidavits and depositions filed by the SEC with a federal court in New York earlier this week are sworn statements by six of Mr. Wang 's colleagues in Morgan Stanley 's mergers and acquisitions department indicating that he was intimately familiar with much of their work , and sometimes may have pumped them for details .
literal
sleeping
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 59, 67 ]
TroFi.o.2983
As a child , the 28-year-old Mr. Hellman spent three years sleeping in an underground bunker as rockets screamed overhead .
literal
rained
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 109, 115 ]
TroFi.o.2674
Foul weather delayed the regatta , but it finally took place on Jan. 2: `` It rained during the first race , rained and hailed during the second , and snowed during the third , '' Mr. Taylor wrote .
literal
pump
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 117, 121 ]
TroFi.o.2579
A score of 200 indicates an ability to grasp simple scientific principles , such as the heart 's main function is to pump blood , or the moon glows because of reflected light from the sun .
metaphorical
kill
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 27, 31 ]
TroFi.o.1853
But let 's be specific and kill off only those programs that are n't working .
literal
fly
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 67, 70 ]
TroFi.o.1661
U.S. airlines are applying under the same rules allowing Pan Am to fly here .
literal
destroying
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 208, 218 ]
TroFi.o.506
Horace Furumoto , chairman and chief executive officer , said the company recently has completed its first phase as a public company , which included the development of lasers for removing birthmarks and for destroying kidney stones without surgery .
metaphorical
vaporize
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 108, 116 ]
TroFi.o.3693
But the Baylor Research Foundation in Dallas soon will unveil a technique for using this versatile laser to vaporize tumors without hurting the surrounding healthy cells .
literal
flourish
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 24, 32 ]
TroFi.o.1486
Methane-making bacteria flourish first in the stomach of ruminants like cattle , where they aid their hosts by digesting carbohydrates , particularly the cellulose-rich plant stalks and leaves .
metaphorical
pumping
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 92, 99 ]
TroFi.o.2622
Because of such saturation , German officials argue , cutting already low interest rates or pumping up a budget deficit that is already a higher percentage of their economy than the U.S. deficit , would lead to rampant inflation .
metaphorical
poured
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 31, 37 ]
TroFi.o.2536
More than $ 5 million is being poured into this year 's campaign , political insiders estimate , making it a hugely expensive municipal debate .
metaphorical
pouring
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 7, 14 ]
TroFi.o.2557
Simply pouring more aid into this environment will breed more state-subsidized projects to compete with the private sector and a bigger bureaucracy to administer the projects .
literal
sleep
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 71, 76 ]
TroFi.o.2968
That is , they taught me how to get up in the morning when I wanted to sleep another few hours .
metaphorical
dance
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 35, 40 ]
TroFi.o.371
`` You 're not going to be able to dance and diddle here . ''/''
literal
killed
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 18, 24 ]
TroFi.o.1884
An Israeli patrol killed a three-year-old Palestinian boy in the Gaza Strip as Arabs staged a general strike in the occupied territories to mark the start of the 12th month of an uprising against Israel .
literal
planted
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 29, 36 ]
TroFi.o.2368
Based on the number of acres planted in the spring , the Agriculture Department estimated earlier this year that a normal yield of 121 bushels an acre would generate a harvest of 7.3 billion bushels .
metaphorical
eating
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 63, 69 ]
TroFi.o.889
Out-of-home entertainment -- such as films , sporting events , eating out , dancing , theater , shopping and amusement parks -- was a leisure-time activity for 43 % of respondents . -LRB- The survey included multiple responses. -RRB-/-RRB-
metaphorical
flourishing
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 10, 21 ]
TroFi.o.1522
Boston is flourishing , office space in the South End is still cheaper than in nearby business districts , and deregulation of deposit rates allows banks to compete in new ways .
literal
killed
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 164, 170 ]
TroFi.o.1882
Administration officials said data collected by the U.S . , Japan , and Bahrain has confirmed South Korean charges that two North Korean agents planted a bomb that killed 115 people aboard a KAL jet last November .
literal
destroy
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 40, 47 ]
TroFi.o.427
It actually demonstrated its ability to destroy target drones in flight .
metaphorical
plows
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 5, 10 ]
TroFi.o.2496
Cray plows more than 15 % of its revenues back into R & D , a very high percentage even for high-tech companies .
literal
fly
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 102, 105 ]
TroFi.o.1640
Foreign visitors marvel at the $ 35 steaks in the stores here , but that 's only because most of them fly here on round-trip tickets purchased back home at rational prices .
metaphorical
pumped
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 155, 161 ]
TroFi.o.2615
They also became a major element in the more-than-doubling of the Nikkei average in the two years to last October because of the huge amount of money they pumped into the market .
metaphorical
planted
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 144, 151 ]
TroFi.o.2365
Administration officials said data collected by the U.S . , Japan , and Bahrain has confirmed South Korean charges that two North Korean agents planted a bomb that killed 115 people aboard a KAL jet last November .