Word: barking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Words flutter in his air like seabirds. Tern. There's a word. A noun. The Captain adores all nouns, proper and improper. A proper noun is a metaphor, observes the Captain, feeling very much the master of his bark. Bark! Noun- verb. Verbs are the best. Bray. Loop. Whir. In his captain's chair, the Captain sits every morning, pen in hand, happy as a clam, happier than any fisherman casting for trout. Trout! Is this the life? Captain Midlife asks unrhetorically, gazing about him with an astonishingly stupid grin...
...even begins to measure up to the expectations of the U.S. study, aspirin could become the cardiologist's dream. It is inexpensive, readily available, effective in low dosages and relatively nontoxic for most people. First derived from willow bark and now chemically synthesized, aspirin works by blocking the manufacture of hormone-like chemicals called prostaglandins that are instrumental in the formation of blood clots...
...been carried off. Defenseless and desperate, Felice Maria and other survivors headed east. Her two-year-old son died before they reached the protected settlement of Inhaminga eight days later. Her ten-year-old daughter was shriveled from starvation but still alive. All they wore was strips of bark. "They come in like this every day," said Mike Mispelaar, head of operations for CARE, the New York City-based international relief agency. "It's like seeing people walk out of hell...
...down at the Malkin Athletic Center, a.k.a. the MAC. The players bound up and down the court, sweat rolling down their faces. The fans stand on the sides. Their incessant screaming and cheering is interrupted only when a basket is made, at which point they wave their fists and bark in unison like dogs...
...Iowans were, and perhaps are, capable of some rascality. George Mills, Iowa journalist and historian, relates that in the early caucuses the requirement that time and place be posted on a tree was sometimes met by partisans' peeling the bark away, nailing the notice on the bare spot, then tacking the bark back over the notice. Once, says Mills, progressives found an old barn that they torched just as the Republican caucus began, and the unwitting standpatters rushed out of the hall to help with the fire while the progressives stayed, voted their will, then adjourned...