Search Details

Word: broom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...within traditional Christian categories of Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant, but is an expression of another way of experiencing God.” I want my free growler! Dear Attractive Girl in My English Section, Look at me, dammit. Sincerely, ????? Hey kid at the Advocate who was dancing with a broom all night: I really respect that. To people who ask questions in lecture, Do not waste everyone’s time on something you didn’t hear or understand completely. Your learning is not more important than other people’s. Dear Me, Yo dude, what?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holler! | 2/28/2007 | See Source »

...critics have also been tough to please. Last week, compacters were attacked in their chat room as "hypocritical and smug," for boasting that they repair rather than replace their vacuum cleaners. "If you were really concerned about curtailing runaway consumerism, you'd ditch your broken vacuum cleaners for a broom," wrote one purist. But Kesel counters that she can't get cat hair off her rug with a broom. "People say we don't take it far enough," she muses. "But I'm like, whoa, in American consumer culture, any step is positive." And in the self-denial department, those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of Living Thriftily | 1/7/2007 | See Source »

...Harry Potter: shake down a Folk and Myth professor until they teach you some bad-ass spells. While you’re at it, steal their academic robes and a broom from their utility closet to complete the look. 2) Rock the lanyard and “Harvard 2010” T-shirt...all the way to UHS, after furtively drinking plastic handle vodka in Lionel. Yet again, you’re a freshman. 3) Drown...you’re Harry Elkins Widener! 4) Put together some writing, publish it once in awhile, and have nobody read it?...

Author: By H. max Huber, M. AIDAN Kelly, Nicola C. Perlman, and Sam Teller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: 15 | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

James Dyson--inventor, self-promoter and Britain'smost famous vacuum salesman--constantly seeks minor irritations. If the batteries in your hand vacuum go dead just when you need it, you plug it in to recharge and grab a broom, right? Not Dyson. If pet hair clogs the vac and ruins its suction, you open it and clear it out. Dyson embarks on a research project. To him, these issues aren't minor, and they're not irritations. They're business opportunities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Quicker Cleanups | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

...icon, was mobbed last week when he performed community service in New York City--his sentence for lying to police about a phony break-in (a cocaine-possession charge was dropped). At first, George balked, but he seemed to get into it during his five days behind the broom and even floated the idea of a benefit for the city's street cleaners. And, yes, people did turn out to see the Karma Chameleon at work in a sanitation worker's vest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 28, 2006 | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Next