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...ninth, Yankee first baseman Chris Chambliss belted a game-winning home run, sparking bedlam in the Bronx. Thousands of delirious fans rushed the field, mobbing Chambliss as he ran the bases. Chambliss fled to safety before stepping on home plate, and, after police had finally cleared the diamond, emerged from the dugout to touch home only to find a fan had stolen it. "Where home plate had been imbedded, there was an empty bottle of Hiram Walker peach-flavored brandy," wrote The New York Times. "There was a bottle of blackberry brandy on second, a bottle of Dewar...
...then headed to the new, very expensive restaurant Philippe Chow, where Flo was taking about 20 people out to dinner. On the ride over, as he showed me his $40,000 diamond-encrusted watch, I asked Flo, whose success is pretty recent and fragile, if spending all this money was such a good idea. He told me that rapper Rick Ross told him that you have to spend money with the confidence of someone who knows he's going to make a lot more. I informed him that Rick Ross is not a certified financial adviser. "He's certified...
...would think,” Jenkins says. “Because I played running back in high school, it’s more of a natural position for me; I have better insticts. It’s like going home.”But where did this diamond in the rough come from?Last season fans could’ve found Jenkins working out with the defense—the secondary, to be exact. But gearing up for a tough Penn run game led by then-senior Joe Sandberg last November, coaches decided to use Jenkins as a scout tailback...
...just a charlatan who found a gimmick and capitalized on it, suckering in those wannabes who are more interested in bragging rights than promoting a fresh, honest talent in the art world or insightful, subversive ideas in the public arena. Dead animals preserved in formaldehyde and a diamond encrusted skull-is this even legal? Spin paintings done by studio assistants-give me a break; kids have amused themselves for decades creating identical masterpieces at fairs and school fundraisers. My fantasy: that no one bids. Susan H. Warren, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania...
Porno, sports, politics...the ideal mixture for a men’s magazine, right? Well, if we’re talking about Diamond magazine, the answer is a resounding no. Diamond attempts to cover everything from eroticism to football predictions to movie reviews, but fails to really cover anything at all—including editor-in-chief Matt di Pasquale’s ’09 hair-carpeted bod. Not only does the magazine include several nudie shots of the editor (pages 33 and 37 for frontal, 35 for a rear shot), but it also includes...