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...took charge on the diamond, calling the defensive shots, cutting down base runners like so many cornstalks, and imposing his canny grasp of pitching tactics on temperamental hurlers. Said former Reds Pitcher Jim Maloney, eight years Bench's senior: "He'll come out to the mound and chew me out as if I were a two-year-old. And I like it." That was only the half of it. Squinting menacingly at rival pitchers over his high Choctaw cheekbones, the young Oklahoman made his biggest noise at the plate that first year, belting 15 homers and driving...
...Hanna Coal Co.'s Gem (actually an acronym for Giant Earth Mover) has stripped the top 80 ft. of soil off the area around Hendrysburg, Ohio, so that other machines can gouge out the underlying coal. Now the Gem wants to move across Interstate Highway 70 and chew its way toward Barnesville (pop. 4,300), ten miles to the south...
...buffoonery of Chaplin's extricating himself from a newly unveiled statue is climaxed when he inadvertently thumbs his nose at the mayor by using the statue's hand. When a waiter brings the inebriated Tramp a plate of spaghetti, it's inevitable and delightful that our hero should also chew up one of the party streamers festooning the room. Buckets of water in the face, stones accidentally falling on innocent toes, police as easily misdirected as the Keystone Cops: it's all there. And in the only specifically aural gag, Chaplin swallows a whistle to create a hilarious variation...
There are psychological advantages too. "You feel your whole psyche changing when you wear one," says K.T. "We haven't had backaches or varicose veins, but we've developed some strange cravings." Adds Linda: "I've stopped chewing gum. A Madonna figure shouldn't chew gum." The Pregnancy Puff also seems to affect the beholder. "People think we're pregnant and tell us how great our complexions look," explains K.T. "They tell us we glow. And maybe we do, because we have this funny secret...
Like men, she quickly discovered, chimpanzees are technological animals. They chew leaves to make sponges, which they use to sop water out of hollow branches. They also strip grass stems to make long probes, which they use to fish tasty termites out of their mounds. Jane also found out that chimps, long considered vegetarians, also eat meat. Like primitive humans, they form hunting parties and carry out fairly intricate plans to capture young bush pigs, monkeys, baboons-and even, she reports, human babies...