Word: eyeful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...applied for the U.S. space program as well? No, I never applied. I was told no before that ever occurred. Because my father was an astronaut, the NASA clinic was my family doctor, you might say. And one year when I was a young teenager the NASA eye doctor came to me, and as my eyesight was becoming fairly bad, he said, "Hey richard, you've got bad eyesight; I'm sorry to be the one to tell you, but that's going to prevent you from ever being selected as a NASA astronaut." I hadn't really thought...
...typically stressful day for a honey-bee, in terms human hive-dwellers can understand: "You stagger off a coast-to-coast red-eye flight and chug a Pepsi for breakfast to revive. You hop in your rental car and head for your business meeting, but wouldn't you know it, the GPS is malfunctioning in the car and you get lost. You show up for the meeting late, edgy, and shaking. You have to excuse yourself to hit the bathroom because you've got a stomach bug and antibiotics just aren't helping. Not to mention the fleas that seem...
...willingness to follow in the Bush administration’s footsteps when it comes to using—or misusing—“democracy” to justify an aggressive, bellicose foreign policy. “We’ve got to keep an eye on Russia,” Ms. Palin told Mr. Gibson. Referring to this summer’s Russia-Georgia conflict, Ms. Palin scolded Russia for its aggressive actions in Georgia. “For Russia to have exerted such pressure in terms of invading a smaller democratic country, unprovoked, is unacceptable...
...Monday as he compared Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's three-page plan to rescue the American financial system to the 40-plus-page proposal they got in response from the Democrats. And by that page ratio alone, it might look to the untrained eye as if Paulson's bailout package was headed for failure, an outcome that spooked markets to another day of stomach-churning 4% and 5% drops on Monday...
...infected open wound - while measuring the electrical conductance of the volunteers' skin, a technique also used in polygraph testing. In a separate experiment, researchers subjected the volunteers to sudden bursts of loud white noise to test their startle reflexes, measured by sensors attached to the muscle below the eye that recorded how hard people blinked...