Word: chawing
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...Glenn, didn't do such a great job managing the Dodgers, but Trevor had 53 saves in 54 attempts with a 1.48 ERA. He does get major style-point deductions for the way he spits out flecks of tobacco and tobacco juice when he's on the mound. Seeing chaw particles on his lips just doesn...
...GOODGAME first met Bill Bennett while covering the Bush White House. "He was working on a chaw of Nicorette," Goodgame recalls of the then drug czar, "as he struggled--successfully--to overcome his addiction to cigarettes." This week Goodgame, now TIME's Washington bureau chief, profiles the Republican commissar of virtue. Traveling with Bennett, he reports, "is like a very good graduate seminar. When Bill finds something he likes to read, he's like Abe Lincoln, rereading the best parts until he's able to declaim them from memory. He has the same memory for anecdotes, including jokes...
...years ago, smoking was going the way of snuff and chaw in Washington. Hillary Clinton outlawed it in the White House, forcing chastened inhalers onto the lawn. The Democratic House Speaker Thomas Foley prohibited smoking in public areas on the House side of the Capitol. A joke circulated on Capitol Hill that smoking was welcome only in the offices of the North Carolina congressional delegation...
While the others were pulling out, in fact, the owner fished a fresh chaw of Red Man from his pocket, got in the big new Chrysler with the tobacco juice cup affixed to the dash, and drove over to Mount Olivet Cemetery. Down at the end of a drive lined with red-tipped photinias, in a section called Showmen's Rest, he pointed out his brother's grave, his father's grave and the spot where he and his wife Isla Marie would spend eternity. All around were tombstones in the shape of tents, or wagon wheels, or ticket booths...
Your girlfriend says to you: "Why can't you be more like Sam Shepard?" She buys you denim jackets, refuses to wash your bluejeans, pickles your tongue with shots of tequila. "Why don't you buy a lasso?" she suggests. "Buck broncos, for Christ's sake. Dip snuff, do chaw, go smokeless, anything...