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...cardinal rule probably ought to be, Do not build on filled land. Such areas are subject to a phenomenon called liquefaction. Quake vibrations rupture the surface, allowing water-saturated soil to rise up and turn what seemed to be solid ground into something like a quaking bowl of Jell-O. In both Kobe and the Marina district of San Francisco, site of the worst damage from the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, liquefaction proved disastrous; the same could happen in the Oakland area across San Francisco Bay. Warns Ross Stein, Geological Survey physicist in Menlo Park, California: ``Kobe is almost...
...grew up, for example, in a culture that recognized only four major foodstuffs: potatoes (mashed or fried), beef (roast or stewed), desserts (cake or pie) and vegetables (canned). There were "salads" too, involving miniature marshmallows encased in lime Jell-O. And there were, at the far fringes of human gastronomic experience, "foreign" foods, meaning mainly spaghetti. In those days, the only way to have fun with food was to put the peas to work as projectiles or make moats out of mashed potatoes...
...powerful blow to the head -- that can result in vertigo, disorientation and momentary unconsciousness, or even permanent memory loss, coma and death. Dr. Robert Cantu, a neurosurgeon at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts, explains that when the head is hit, "the brain is shaken in the cranium much like Jell-O in a bowl...
...February, 1992 writing class, Silva compared "focus in the writing process" to sexual relationships. To illustrate the proper use of a simile, Silva used the example of "belly-dancing is like Jell-O on a plate with a vibrator under the plate," according to court documents...
Celebrity spokespeople are held only to a loose, don't-ask-don't-tell standard of credibility. Bill Cosby doesn't really serve Jell-O chocolate pudding at dinner parties? Duhhh. Almost nobody is naive enough anymore to believe the tacit advertising shams, but neither are celebrity endorsements registered as falsehoods -- at least as long as the untruths aren't thrown in our faces. Only when vegetarian Cybill Shepherd served as a spokesperson for the beef industry did the commercial lie become insuperable...