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...saree of dirt and exhaust, pleated six times at my waist and draped over my shoulder, enshrouds my body and defends my modesty from the menacing eyes of the dark. And as I lay in bed, immobilized by the heat, with the dissonant smells of sweet roasted corn and cow dung wafting through my open window, I am ham-fisted to find where I end and my environs begin...

Author: By Lauren E. Baer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Real Urban Outfitter | 7/14/2000 | See Source »

...Frat letter 4. Org. overseeing Sydney festivities 5. Bessemer process leftover 6. She defeated Martina in the '85 U.S. Open 7. Coelho's out; he's in 8. The RIAA wants to shut it down 9. Nation that has apologized for its Holocaust role: abbr. 10. Kind of cow, horse, dog or man 12. The Justice Department will compensate his estate for his tapes and papers 15. Aquino's successor in the Philippines 19. Unknown, on a sked 21. Jesse Ventura, once 23. Prefix with log or gram 24. Novi __, Serbia 26. Web short-hand meaning "editorially speaking" 27. Place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Crossword Jul. 3, 2000 | 7/3/2000 | See Source »

...thought all I would have to do was maintain that, yes, Kansas City is a real city. Downtown has everything from tall, fancy office buildings to inner-city crime-ridden areas. Perhaps I would avoid the cow questions...

Author: By Heather B. Long, | Title: A Tale of Two Cities | 6/30/2000 | See Source »

...besides, saying I was from Kansas, especially after the Kansas State Board of Education's decision on evolution, was just asking for trouble. Responses varied from, "Oh, so you're from that place that doesn't believe in Darwin" to the standard, "What's it like to milk a cow...

Author: By Heather B. Long, | Title: A Tale of Two Cities | 6/30/2000 | See Source »

...name sounds as normal as can be: Tom Green. But over the past year and a half, this MTV sensation, Pepsi pitchman and movie star apparent has slurped milk from a cow's teat, snorkeled for pennies in a shopping-mall fountain, worn an ELVIS SUCKS T shirt at Graceland, fought Monica Lewinsky with a lightsaber and gargled with mustard. Contrary to rumor, however, he did not dress as Hitler to attend a bar mitzvah. Although it is true that he humped a dead moose on camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Wild and Zany Guy | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

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