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...find Larry the Cable Guy at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons. As the taut and the tanned tucked into their watercress salads served on Limoges china, a husky guy in Army green shorts and a sleeveless Superman T-shirt showed up at the bar and asked for a Jim Beam and Coke. Were this a Ponderosa restaurant in almost any other town in America, Larry, whose real name is Dan Whitney, would be mobbed. Instead, because we're surrounded by the kind of people more likely to mob Jeffrey Katzenberg, I have the affable icon of rural American comedy...
...photographers are gathered in an arc near the school's entrance. Rudd's car arrives, the leader emerges, and a greeting party, including local Laboristas, moves his way. Cameras whirr, reporters edge a little closer. As he shakes a teacher's hand, Rudd's face emits a single, dazzling beam: eyes, lips, teeth in luminous concert. Today's contrived event-a grass-roots grip and greet-has become a rapture. Is Rudd for real...
Kramer, a St. Louis product, honed his game in the Midwest’s Northwoods League, while Roth spent time in the New York Collegiate Baseball League. Kramer, a career .275 hitter, is best known for his laser-beam throws down to second base, which have been clocked at speeds exceeding the velocity on most of the Harvard hurlers’ fastballs...
...sounds like science fiction, but it's real--a heat ray that can zap a mob and force people to flee without inflicting permanent injury. On Jan. 24 the U.S. military unveiled its Active Denial System, right, which shoots a beam of electromagnetic radiation calibrated to cause an intense burning sensation (similar to touching a hot lightbulb) but no long-term damage. Unlike traditional brute-force tools of dispersal--such as batons and rubber bullets, which can maim or even kill--a new wave of high-tech crowd-control devices promises to keep the peace without causing casualties...
...Long Range Acoustic Device Used by U.S. police, troops in Iraq and even cruise ships trying to scare off pirates, this souped-up megaphone blasts out a beam of high-pitched, piercing sound. Anyone caught in its path will be incapacitated by an intense headache...