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But it seems likely that the melodic rise and fall of, say, Licciardello can deceive the ear in a way that--just for an example--its German equivalent Schlick (Middle High German to gulp) simply cannot.
So I've been doing this now for (gulp!) 17 years, and while I've never had another story that gave me quite that same jolt, I've never stopped feeling that way about business.
The New York Times has managed to work up the courage to use "semen," and I heard Newsweek 's Mike Isikoff say the word on television (though not without a noticeable gulp).
That earlier work, impossibly fraudulent on every level, dramatized the ways in which baby boomers, who came of age with the counterculture, rejected their daddies along with their daddies' conservative values, only to be left with an emptiness filled only by, gulp, a supernatural baseball game.
L'il Abner's Gulp! might have shown that his heart was in his throat, but these days when someone says gulp , it is more likely tongue in cheek.