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...grounds of Kensington Palace. The butler promptly quit and told all, complaining that Tony was far too democratic for any royal servant to work for. To keep busy around the house while his wife was out working at her royal duties, Tony designed and built an elaborate balsa-wood model of an aviary for the London Zoo. Sniffed the bumptious Daily Express: "Mister Armstrong-Jones must now be ranked as one of the leading aviary designers in the country-a not overcrowded profession...
...continued the retrenchment program started to pay off his expensive short-term debt and complete his major projects under way. For more than $5,000,000, he sold his 200-year lease (with options) on Manhattan's posh St. Regis Hotel to Mexico's Cesar Balsa, 37, a onetime bellhop whose nine-hotel chain in Mexico City and Acapulco is the largest in Central America. The sale completed the financial legerdemain begun last February when Webb & Knapp bought the St. Regis for $14 million. Two months later it sold the hotel to Manhattan's Kratter Corp...
...excavated in the construction of new underpasses and highway cut-throughs. "Imagine it, a pile of earth two miles long, a hundred yards wide, and five stories tall!" he says, eyes glittering. At the other end of the weight scale, he is also starting new works in aluminum and balsa wood. "Why not?" he asks. "Anything can be sculpture, even air in balloons. The form is the main thing...
...Copson has successfully freeze-dried mushrooms, carrots, beef rib and sirloin steak, veal cutlets, pork chops, lobster, shrimp, strawberries and several kinds of fish. Uncooked green peas keep their shape but become as light as miniature ping-pong balls. Freeze-dried chicken breasts look like balsa wood. For gourmets, freeze-dried foods offer some interesting possibilities. Chicken or fish could be made to soak up several times their weight of wine or other flavorsome liquid...
...m.p.h., drove his staff just as hard. Prankishly, he liked to take visitors on a tour of the city room, bang an editor over the head with an eight-foot plank, then rock with laughter when his guests found that the plank was made of feather-light balsa wood. On occasion, the Mirror used the slogan, "All the News You Want to Know and Which Nobody Else Will Tell You," and the paper's book column boasted: "There is no need to waste time on a boring book if you follow our selections...