Word: gooey
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dead water birds, their gooey bodies strewed along a filthy shore. It is a sadly familiar scene in the wake of a major oil spill. For one man, however, the sight evoked more curiosity than pathos. After viewing photos of the 1967 Torrey Canyon grounding off the Cornish coast, Al Crotti, an American international lawyer based in London, had a novel idea: "If feathers attracting the oil are part of the problem, why can't feathers be part of the solution?" Why not indeed? Now being added to the arsenal of weapons for fighting oil spills is Seaclean...
...willing to bare all for Laguna. Indeed, a 1969 nude volunteer named Cathe Mennen is enshrined as a heroine of the pageant. While she posed in a statuary group of Pygmalion and Galatea, a pigeon mistook her for the real thing and attempted a landing. Slipping on her gooey body makeup, the bird dug in its claws and drew blood. Mennen remained as immobile as her bronze original, earning a standing ovation...
...GOLDEN POND rewinds me of Sugar Daddies. Actually, it makes me think of all sorts of gooey candy like taffy or Bubble Yum or Star Bursts. But most of all, it makes me thing of Sugar Daddies--those generous-sized oblong lollipops that bend into curious little cow licks after they've been in your mouth for a white. I remember a commercial for Sugar Daddies that used to be on TV. In showed a vat powering--and it seemed like it would poor eternally--the thick golden brown syrup that eventually hardened into the lollipops. On Golden Pond...
Though some Follow Through models combine teaching elements from both methods, many classrooms tend to be readily identifiable as either prickly or gooey. Follow Through classes at the Weeksville School, P.S. 243 in Brooklyn, for instance, are colorful, but seem a bit chaotic. In Teresa Van Exel's second-grade class, various groups do different things at the same time. The second grade has chosen the apple as this year's theme, and in one corner, Van Exel conducts a science class for eight children on how apples were stored for winter during the 1800s. Meanwhile...
...Cambridge, Mass., Harrington Elementary School, the gooey classrooms are broken down into "learning centers." In one, a first-grader fits pieces of an alphabet puzzle together. Near by, two girls dressed up in oversized high-heel shoes set a dinner table. A small group, with a teaching assistant acting as secretary, dictates words that will eventually make a whole story. Says Teacher Louise Grant: "Children need opportunities to express their own thoughts. The learning process is easier because there is an interest...