Search Details

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


Usage:

...notorious El Capitan. On ice, where one wrong strike with an ice ax can bring down an avalanche, Erik has learned to listen to the ice as he pings it gently with his ax. If it clinks, he avoids it. If it makes a thunk like a spoon hitting butter, he knows it's solid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adventure: Blind To Failure | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...notorious El Capitan. On ice, where one wrong strike with an ice ax can bring down an avalanche, Erik has learned to listen to the ice as he pings it gently with his ax. If it clinks, he avoids it. If it makes a thunk like a spoon hitting butter, he knows it's solid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blind To Failure | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...Under the porch, we find a handful of motherless baby squirrels, alarmingly whitish and hairless, foetal and fumbling, wizened little old blind men. We put peanut butter out for them, and they eat it for a couple of days, but we have not seen them since Friday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At the Farm, the Animals Go On the Prowl | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...GETS GIRL With "Spinning Into Butter," her play about race relations on campus, Rebecca Gilman gave notice that she was a playwright to watch. And with this intense drama of a woman's encounter with a stalker, she became one to hail. First produced by Chicago's Goodman Theatre, it's not just a gripping play but also an important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Theater 2000 | 5/17/2001 | See Source »

...wrong: This is no butter-not-guns, spend-it-all-on-education whine. It's about hard-nosed assessments of U.S. security, and the spending priorities that result from those. It's certainly worth noting that while the Pentagon is more than happy to back National Missile Defense, it opposes diverting any money from the defense budget to pay for it. In other words, in Pentagon thinking, the threat of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles is not great enough to displace any of the existing spending priorities directed towards defending America. That's not to say missiles are no danger - far from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missile Defense: A High-Tech Maginot Line? | 5/1/2001 | See Source »

Previous | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | Next