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literal | melted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2182 | It held open houses for prospective investors at the mine , where large amounts of rock were dug and ground up , filtered and washed , then melted in a furnace and `` poured into what were represented to be precious-metal blocks , shaped like pyramids , '' according to the criminal indictment filed against Mr. Barbara and four others in state court in Las Cruces , N.M . |
metaphorical | dancing | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
20,
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] | TroFi.o.397 | I , for one , am `` dancing on the ceiling . ''/'' |
metaphorical | pour | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
112,
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] | TroFi.o.2499 | As a regional brand , however , Stokely already ca n't come close to matching the dollars that both the biggies pour into advertising and trade promotion . |
metaphorical | flooded | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
172,
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] | TroFi.o.1441 | The vice president 's confrontation with Mr. Rather also has raised further questions about the media 's performance this political season , as CBS and its affiliates were flooded with phone calls , mostly critical of Mr. Rather . |
literal | killed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1901 | Israel deported eight Palestinians to Lebanon and ordered the expulsion of 12 others , including six from the West Bank village where an Israeli teen-ager and two Palestinian youths were killed last week . |
metaphorical | melting | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
44,
51
] | TroFi.o.2208 | The international Food Court , serving up a melting pot of fast food , approximates a municipal park . |
literal | killed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1888 | At least 35 people have been killed as the siege enters its second week . |
metaphorical | pump | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
10,
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] | TroFi.o.2581 | Each will pump almost $ 25 million into media and polling . |
metaphorical | pumping | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
29,
36
] | TroFi.o.2634 | Instead of buying assets and pumping up bank reserves last spring , the Fed should have been heeding the run-up in gold and commodities and playing the sell card . |
metaphorical | flooded | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
130,
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] | TroFi.o.1424 | Researchers at the University of Illinois , which Mr. Harvey said may have found a chemical that prevents the disease , were also flooded with phone calls . |
metaphorical | destroy | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
46,
53
] | TroFi.o.444 | `` It would be much too much to say this will destroy either the parent company or {Cosmos} , '' says Dan Nielsen , an analyst with SBCI Securities -LRB- Asia -RRB- Ltd . |
literal | dissolve | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
81,
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] | TroFi.o.591 | By changing formulas for solvents , he says , UNC `` can take superalloy scrap , dissolve it , and separate out the various metals . ''/'' |
literal | targeted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.3557 | Terry Knowles , special agent in charge of the Sacramento FBI office , declined to say why California was targeted or provide other details . |
literal | killed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1878 | A $ 41 million settlement has been reached on all claims stemming from the 1987 collapse of the apartment complex L'Ambiance Plaza in which 28 people were killed . |
literal | killed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1892 | Enseco Inc. said an explosion early yesterday at a unit 's plant in Berkeley Heights , N.J . , killed three people and seriously injured a fourth . |
metaphorical | stumbled | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
23,
31
] | TroFi.o.3493 | The top leadership has stumbled repeatedly in development of force structure and use of force as it pursues an unfocused , open-ended commitment in the Gulf , and yet is questioned by the media only in the vaguest terms , while the military that must put such concepts into practice is left holding the bag when things go wrong . |
metaphorical | destroyed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
41,
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] | TroFi.o.478 | Public reaction to this melodrama nearly destroyed the administration and solidified the belief that no moderates existed in Iran . |
metaphorical | flooded | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
27,
34
] | TroFi.o.1434 | The company says it now is flooded with requests from state and private health agencies and hospitals seeking their own P.R. bonanza from the cholesterol craze . |
literal | wither | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.3702 | Economists ' food-inflation forecasts have been heating up as crops wither in the Midwest . |
literal | drinking | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.804 | Lower-alcohol beer is favored by `` session drinkers '' who spend an entire evening in a pub and are accustomed to drinking English beer which , despite its robust taste , generally is less potent than Australian or U.S. brands . |
metaphorical | cool | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
109,
113
] | TroFi.o.280 | Mr. Lawson insists the acceleration is but `` a blip '' and says recently imposed higher interest rates will cool things off without interrupting growth . |
metaphorical | pump | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
43,
47
] | TroFi.o.2586 | Indeed , the U.S. maintains that the bases pump many millions of dollars into the Philippine economy , over and above whatever compensation and aid the U.S. gives to Manila . |
metaphorical | dissolve | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
32,
40
] | TroFi.o.605 | The Suez group has said it will dissolve the Belgian company 's current 23-member board and create a two-tier management , with a chief executive running day-to-day operations and a management committee that defines strategy . |
metaphorical | plow | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
5,
9
] | TroFi.o.2457 | They plow through their copy like farmers trying to meet a quota . |
literal | ate | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.111 | One grandfather had a sugar-cane field , until alternating patrols of Contras and Sandinistas ate it , stalk by stalk . |
literal | attacking | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.230 | The Sandinistas have now offered reasons for attacking and arresting anti-government demonstrators Sunday -LRB- `` Somocista Bands Invade Nandaime '' -RRB- ; for closing Radio Catolica -LRB- `` lack of respect for constitutional order '' -RRB- ; for arresting a Conservative Party leader -LRB- `` the principal instigator '' -RRB- . |
literal | play | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
166,
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] | TroFi.o.2426 | Audiences love the interplay between Brown , a renowned bassist , and Harris , whose technique and volcanic energy moved one colleague to say , `` If God meant us to play like that , He would have given us 88 fingers . ''/'' |
metaphorical | attack | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
123,
129
] | TroFi.o.127 | Finally , Texas Air 's financing has left Mr. Lorenzo some breathing room to wage his cost war with organized labor and to attack his operating problems . |
metaphorical | cooling | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
122,
129
] | TroFi.o.346 | The suit alleged that Tamiami Gun Shop broke Florida gun laws by selling Mr. Katz the gun without the required 48-hour `` cooling off '' period . |
metaphorical | evaporated | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
51,
61
] | TroFi.o.1038 | The euphoria of hiring four agents the first month evaporated when the local franchise owners , who earlier sung VR 's praises , revealed their discontent now that he was one of them . |
metaphorical | stumbled | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
43,
51
] | TroFi.o.3470 | Even when trying to right itself , Merrill stumbled . |
metaphorical | rained | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
88,
94
] | TroFi.o.2671 | And when Mr. Dukakis 's 46-minute address had ended -- as the confetti and the balloons rained down and jubilant delegates waved an estimated 10 , 000 American flags -- Mr. Jackson , his wife and family joined the Dukakis and Bentsen families on the platform . |
literal | plant | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
12,
17
] | TroFi.o.2360 | You have to plant it when it 's small , and wait for it to grow. '/'' |
literal | killing | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
49,
56
] | TroFi.o.1967 | In the West Bank , troops fired on Arab youths , killing at least one . |
metaphorical | dissolving | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
16,
26
] | TroFi.o.651 | We can also see dissolving a central tenet of those who 've long argued that the large budget and trade deficits of the Reagan years have left the U.S. economy tottering on the edge of ruin . |
metaphorical | targeted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
177,
185
] | TroFi.o.3527 | Advertised with pictures of frolicking yuppies and the slogan `` Jazz is born -- Macintosh boogies , '' Jazz disappointed business users and never captured the new market Lotus targeted . |
metaphorical | cool | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
76,
80
] | TroFi.o.277 | Fed officials hope for signs soon that the economy is slowing , which would cool the need for further rate increases . |
metaphorical | dissolve | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
148,
156
] | TroFi.o.584 | A state judge in Manhattan ordered White & Case to provide an accounting of the firm 's assets as of June 30 , the day lawyers in the firm voted to dissolve their partnership and re-form without longtime partner Evan R. Dawson . |
literal | flourish | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
159,
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] | TroFi.o.1479 | By 1981 the lower end of the Pawtuxet , into which Ciba-Geigy had been pouring 1.2 million gallons of waste each day , could support only those organisms that flourish in sewage and toxic waste . |
metaphorical | attacking | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
83,
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] | TroFi.o.221 | Major newspapers generally endorse the notion of liberalization , but they are n't attacking the GATT solution . |
metaphorical | flooding | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
74,
82
] | TroFi.o.1462 | Saudi Arabia openly declared war on the rest of OPEC , vowing to continue flooding the market with crude oil until the cartel 's members honor their production quotas . |
literal | attack | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.122 | But Iran 's positions , overrun in last Saturday 's attack on Majnoon , were just a few thin lines of hillocks ; the fortifications of an army that expects to attack rather than defend . |
metaphorical | destroy | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
30,
37
] | TroFi.o.422 | Excessive rates of income tax destroy enterprise , encourage avoidance , and drive talent to more hospitable shores overseas . |
metaphorical | targeting | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
98,
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] | TroFi.o.3578 | But this month S & P is trying to take the real estate world by storm , with a marketing campaign targeting 200 , 000 real estate brokers , appraisers and portfolio managers . |
literal | killed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
32,
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] | TroFi.o.1924 | The Salk vaccine is composed of killed polio virus . |
literal | eat | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.856 | Paulina and the old man go out to the laundry shed to eat their breakfasts . |
metaphorical | evaporated | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
31,
41
] | TroFi.o.1031 | Meanwhile , existing jobs have evaporated . |
metaphorical | stumbling | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
12,
21
] | TroFi.o.3511 | The U.S. is stumbling toward another energy crisis thanks to public policies that discourage utilities from investing in new electric generating facilities , particularly nuclear ones . |
metaphorical | flooded | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
19,
26
] | TroFi.o.1435 | The court has been flooded with briefs by manufacturers and the insurance industry , which argue for limits on liability and damages , and by consumer groups and plaintiffs ' lawyers , which oppose limits . |
metaphorical | flourished | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
12,
22
] | TroFi.o.1509 | The company flourished in Japan 's roaring '80s by diversifying into niches that much of the country 's staid business culture dismissed . |
literal | eat | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
11,
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] | TroFi.o.872 | You ca n't eat these confections , but paper making satisfies the senses all the same . |
literal | planting | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
120,
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] | TroFi.o.2420 | The South 's overall softwood growth of 5.7 billion cubic feet annually could be increased by 2.1 billion cubic feet by planting pine on 22 million acres of marginal crop land and pasture , the study says . |
metaphorical | floods | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
6,
12
] | TroFi.o.1467 | `` It floods the area instead of having hot pinpoints of glaring light . ''/'' |
metaphorical | attack | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
37,
43
] | TroFi.o.154 | `` I think glasnost is bad when they attack Stalin . ''/'' |
metaphorical | flooding | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
11,
19
] | TroFi.o.1457 | Others are flooding their local television broadcasts with press releases and advertising that stresses the quality and safety of the vehicles . |
literal | eats | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
34,
38
] | TroFi.o.902 | Another writer goes to Bulgaria , eats bad food , stays at a bad hotel whose name he translates as Rathole Fleabag , and generally has a terrible time . |
metaphorical | stumbled | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
123,
131
] | TroFi.o.3483 | Peter Lynch , who runs Fidelity Investments ' mammoth Magellan Fund , said the recent performance of the big funds , which stumbled badly late last year , should shoot down the theory that they are `` over the hill . ''/'' |
literal | planting | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
64,
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] | TroFi.o.2423 | These were incentives , the official visitor said , to get them planting again . |
literal | pumped | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
157,
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] | TroFi.o.2612 | The LCG produced for the Apollo astronauts and used by current shuttle crews is made of white spandex and ribbed with 1 8-inch tubing through which water is pumped from a heat exchanger worn on a backpack to maintain an even body temperature . |
metaphorical | kill | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
144,
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] | TroFi.o.1860 | Let Jim Wright , Chris Dodd , Tony Coelho , David Bonior , Mike Lowry and David Obey explain in the papers every day why their determination to kill the Contra request represents the proudest foreign-policy achievement of the Democratic Party in 1988 . |
literal | killed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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35
] | TroFi.o.1905 | It was then that a 747 crash killed 520 people , the worst single-aircraft accident in aviation history . |
literal | sleep | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
254,
259
] | TroFi.o.2957 | Medic-Light already is working on `` second-generation '' products , including a computerized light system that , by simulating the gradual light changes of dawn and dusk , is designed to serve as `` a natural clock '' to wake people up and lull them to sleep , says Mr. Hughes . |
literal | attack | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
22,
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] | TroFi.o.142 | The PLO said it would attack Israeli targets to avenge Sunday 's killing of three guerrillas and Monday 's bombing of a ship intended to carry Palestinian deportees to Israel . |
metaphorical | pour | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
26,
30
] | TroFi.o.2513 | Still , calls continue to pour in on Dr. Lapin 's 800-NO-BLOOD hotline . |
metaphorical | destroy | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
219,
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] | TroFi.o.423 | Finally , that act would streamline procedures , allowing states to set or change individual permits without needless EPA review ; EPA to issue targeted requirements rather than comprehensive federal cleanup plans that destroy local initiatives ; and enforcement to become both swifter and fairer through self-executing citations reviewed by expert administrative law judges , not cases pursued in hundreds of backlogged district courts . |
literal | attacking | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.244 | This suggests a panicky response from the Vincennes , particularly since a Pentagon air-combat specialist quoted by Mr. Kaplan in the Boston Globe said that an attacking F-14 probably would be traveling `` at at least 550 to 580 knots , '' 100 knots faster than Adm. Crow says the Airbus was flying , and `` well under 1 , 000 feet . . . . |
literal | eating | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
117,
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] | TroFi.o.899 | `` I tried to move and talk but that was impossible , '' recalled an Australian boy in 1973 , after he fell ill from eating puffer fish . |
metaphorical | pumped | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
59,
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] | TroFi.o.2616 | With the Pledge , the furlough program and the ACLU , they pumped some genuine voter concerns into the election . |
literal | drink | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.759 | And true to German tradition , the club has its own Stammtisch , a table at a local beer hall where club members gather once a week to drink and gab . |
literal | destroying | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.500 | And instead of reacting to this aggression by destroying Iranian naval assets , defense leaders responded by saturating the Gulf with American military forces that were not supposed to engage their aggressor , but instead were supposed to intimidate him by their mere presence . |
metaphorical | raining | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
17,
24
] | TroFi.o.2692 | Red ink has been raining upon one AI company after another -- including Symbolics Inc . , Teknowledge Inc. and Intellicorp -- and Xerox 's business has been hurt , too . |
metaphorical | planting | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
84,
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] | TroFi.o.2418 | Similarly , Victor Munoz , a Chihuahua-born U.S. labor leader , credits the PAN for planting the seeds of democracy . |
metaphorical | melted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
30,
36
] | TroFi.o.2195 | `` The hot weather just about melted him away , '' Mr. Corbett says with a sigh . |
literal | sleeping | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.2992 | Next door , two rifle-toting guards patrol outside the shack where Mr. Ngxobongwana is sleeping . |
literal | attacked | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
38,
46
] | TroFi.o.176 | In northern Nicaragua , Honduran jets attacked a Sandinista military headquarters . |
metaphorical | flooded | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
19,
26
] | TroFi.o.1436 | The court has been flooded with briefs by manufacturers and the insurance industry , which argue for limits on liability and damages , and by consumer groups and plaintiffs ' lawyers , which oppose limits . |
literal | drinking | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
170,
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] | TroFi.o.801 | It happens every year , says Dusty Saunders of the Rocky Mountain News , in Denver: Reporters put in long and weary days on the tour only to have their editors spot them drinking beer with a starlet on TV . |
literal | withering | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
36,
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] | TroFi.o.3733 | Southeastern poultry producers fear withering soybean supplies will force up prices on other commodities . |
literal | planted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
121,
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] | TroFi.o.2410 | Thus , such basic camouflage measures as false runways made of painted plastic strips , dummy buildings and planes , sod planted on concrete buildings , reforestation and the like could lead him to drop his bombs in the wrong place . |
literal | attacking | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
182,
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] | TroFi.o.215 | Because a commitment to hold open the 74.4 miles of supply road to Khost from Gardez would require even more Soviet casualties and force , the optimists surmise that the Soviets are attacking Khost to get out of Afghanistan . |
metaphorical | evaporated | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
134,
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] | TroFi.o.1039 | The market pulled back during the afternoon amid profit-taking , traders said , and then began a fullscale retreat as buying interest evaporated . |
metaphorical | vaporize | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
94,
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] | TroFi.o.3694 | First , there will be `` the last warning , '' a Hiroshima-size nuclear shot , or bigger , to vaporize part of the advancing armor . |
literal | eat | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.837 | Another regular , bundled in a brown cape , his feet wrapped in cloth , was seen touching all the bread in the basket `` hoping no one else will eat it , '' says Mrs. Howell . |
metaphorical | flying | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
124,
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] | TroFi.o.1680 | Gary Lynch , the director of enforcement at the SEC , recalls some investment bankers who passed their polygraph tests with flying colors during insider-trading probes . |
literal | kills | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
3,
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] | TroFi.o.1974 | It kills the parasite residing in red blood cells and has few side effects , SmithKline said . |
metaphorical | melt | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
143,
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] | TroFi.o.2174 | Unself-consciously , the littlest cast member with the big voice steps into the audience in one number to open her wide cat-eyes and throat to melt the heart of one lucky patron each night . |
metaphorical | attacked | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
41,
49
] | TroFi.o.196 | Sen. Brock Adams -LRB- D . , Wash. -RRB- attacked what he called `` sweatshop conditions '' in some labs . |
metaphorical | dissolves | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
89,
98
] | TroFi.o.642 | The paved highway abruptly turns into a dirt road , and South Africa , without warning , dissolves into Bophuthatswana . |
metaphorical | besieged | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
125,
133
] | TroFi.o.262 | People split their tickets from the presidential line to the House line because they know who the incumbent is , having been besieged by mail from the House member 's office and ads from his campaign and having been helped by his constituent case workers . |
literal | plant | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
144,
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] | TroFi.o.2357 | The downturn quickly steamrolled on conjecture that the big rise in soybean futures prices in the past two weeks might motivate some farmers to plant more soybeans . |
literal | melts | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
77,
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] | TroFi.o.2212 | Engineers at General Binding , in Northbrook , Ill . , devised a method that melts the adhesive by sending a low-voltage current into the cover itself , resulting in a smaller and less expensive unit . |
literal | sleeping | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
90,
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] | TroFi.o.2994 | Now he relies on a rather uncomfortable machine to force air down his trachea , but he is sleeping better than ever , and so is Mrs. Ponce . |
metaphorical | eat | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
51,
54
] | TroFi.o.869 | To air fresh shows through June , `` we 'd have to eat the second showing of some episodes , '' he said , which would cause a financial hit . |
metaphorical | kill | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
89,
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] | TroFi.o.1876 | `` The market had a bad spill on Friday , and normally when that happens they absolutely kill it on Monday , '' said Bernard Savaiko , senior precious metals analyst for PaineWebber Inc . , New York . |
literal | poured | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
30,
36
] | TroFi.o.2527 | Custom demands that cognac be poured from a freshly opened bottle . |
metaphorical | attacking | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
72,
81
] | TroFi.o.235 | The preacher and civil rights leader went after Mr. Dukakis yesterday , attacking him for failing to give specifics on budget questions . |
literal | drink | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
49,
54
] | TroFi.o.784 | Today , the upper ranks of English society still drink Pimm 's , though in weather that is rather damper and at contests somewhat tamer: the Ascot horse races , the Wimbledon tennis tournament , the Henley rowing regatta . |
literal | melt | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
43,
47
] | TroFi.o.2176 | `` This is the kind of junk we ca n't even melt into other garbage , '' says a major coin wholesaler who asked to remain anonymous because he has sold other coins under the auspices of the Marshall Islands . |
literal | drink | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
186,
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] | TroFi.o.786 | Walter Single , a recovering alcoholic , recalls that on a daily diet of nine pints of Wild Irish Rose , he still was able `` to function well enough to panhandle the money he needed to drink all day and still have enough left for a wake-up in the morning . ''/'' |
metaphorical | withered | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
13,
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] | TroFi.o.3711 | But that bid withered after the Oct. 19 stock market crash . |
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