Word: crocks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...three handhelds with cooking applications, the iPhone has the biggest selection of recipes. With more than 30 cooking programs to choose from in Apple's App Store, you can zero in on anything from Crock-Pot specials to vegan treats. I clicked on one app, Post Imagineering's no-frills Christmas recipes, which downloaded to my phone in seconds for 99˘. And though the thumbprint cookies I made from it got rave reviews, it was mildly annoying to have to tap the screen every few minutes to get it out of power-save mode while I mixed, beat and rolled...
...orange juice containers are shrinking from 96 ounces to 89; Wrigley's is dropping its the 17-stick PlenTPak in favor of the 15-stick Slim Pack; Dial soap bars now weigh half an ounce less, and that's even before they melt in the shower. Containers of Country Crock spread, Hellmann's mayonnaise and Edy's and Breyer's ice cream have all slimmed down as well (although that may not necessarily be a bad thing...
...Savages, both of which take mortality seriously. In the former a successful man in his prime is struck down by a massive stroke. It leaves him able only to blink a single eye. And the capacity to conduct interior monologues with himself. In the latter, a cranky old crock named Lenny (Philip Bosco) surrenders to senile dementia, leaving his self-absorbed and obscurely damaged children, Wendy and Jon (Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman), to devise a minimally dignified exit strategy...
...libraries and an ideal location for scholarship of all sorts. Of course, its size inhibits it from keeping its neighbor’s bordello hours, but that’s part of the charm. Would you rather read in an elegant memorial to the Titanic or in a concrete Crock-Pot named for a man who called Benito Mussolini “a very upstanding chap...
...words can throw a chill up the American spine as fast as the phrase, "or I'll sue." As in, "Pay up, or I'll sue." Even if you suspect that the threat's a crock, the real and imagined horrors of a briefcase-bully will send many of us wheedling for absolution just to stay out of court. We're cowards that way, shy about calling the bluff of those litigious little creeps who itch for a legal showdown over every petty spat...