Word: icing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...heat at the docks - a raucous, clanging, blood-and-guts tangle of 10,000 buyers, sellers, porters and men whacking rusty knives into silver skin - is unforgiving. Boat crews crouch in patches of shade on deck, smoking and waiting for their wages. The boats' hulls, sloshing with bloody ice water, are almost empty, only a few shiny bellies lolling in the slush. Porters have already hoisted thousands of tuna onto their shoulders and carried them to the exporters; they swarm around the fat, fresh ones whose slick layer of slime still smells like the ocean, and whose scales gleam with...
...sellers. Quality testers sink metal rods into the fish, pulling out samples of pink meat that they rub between their thumb and forefinger and smell. The biggest and best tuna will go for about $700 wholesale, and get whisked away to be washed, beheaded, gutted and packed with dry ice to catch the 10:30 a.m. flight to Manila. By the next day, the fish will be in Tokyo, Seattle or California. By the next night, its meat will be poised between chopsticks. (Watch TIME's video "The Trouble with Tuna...
...fresh baked daily from scratch—just like Betty Draper would have made them.” Perhaps this is indeed how the embodiment of ’60s-housewife-syndrome would have made them were she Betty Crocker, Baking Guru as opposed to Betty Draper, Ice Queen Extraordinaire...
...comparable to that of prior years, others say he's dreaming. "Usually there would be one film that came close to a double-digit million-dollar sale, if not hitting that," says Ted Hope, a 20-year veteran indie-film producer whose credits include 21 Grams and The Ice Storm. "Then you would have four or five films in that $4-to-$6 million range and four to seven films in that $1-to-$3 million range. Now we likely have just three or fewer films in the $1-to-$2 million dollar range." (See 10 lessons from...
...Fifty years later, Plante's credited more for his good sense than lack of spine. The last professional goaltender not to wear a mask left the ice in 1974, and modern players can't imagine life without one. "I don't know if I would have played goal [without it], let's put it that way," famed New Jersey Devils goalie Martin Brodeur told NHL.com...