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...nobody trades with Wiltshire. His "wife," it turns out, is taboo. Case, the other trader, has craftily skewered him -and there follows an adventuresome confrontation of good and evil as Wiltshire struggles for his existence against this betel-nut Belial who once went to Oxford and who now wears sharks' teeth around his neck and spooks the entire island with his weird, wicked acts and weirder metaphysics. "The ghosts of beautiful women," he says, "fly backwards so that you cannot see the worm marks on their faces...
Ghoulardi plays bongo drums on human skulls, and he hits fungos with shrunken heads; but mainly he just plays the nut clown. He shows ads that say, "Drink Ghoulaid," and he says he likes to read The Tragedy of Ghoulius Caesar. From college he graduated magna ghoul laude. Perhaps because he sees himself as another Ghoul Brynner, he has a ghoult complex. His favorite ballplayer is Ghoul Hodges. This goes on until adults can justifiably despair of teendom as a world they never made...
...pace with the increasing complexity and costliness of doing business. Small manufacturers-who are not as diversified or as well-financed as the large companies-tend to find themselves squeezed for profits, short on capital, and without enough technical talent. Says President Matthew Meyers of Los Angeles' Alvo Nut & Bolt Co.: "We're paying more to make the product itself; yet because of competition, we are selling it for less and less...
...pallid pap that will cause all our musical teeth to fall out," says Helmut Blume, acting dean of music at Montreal's McGill University. But in all their countless installations, background music hustlers claim to get complaints only from old men in green eyeshades and sleeve garters. "The nut who complains about music is the same one who bitches about the office being too hot or too cold and a thousand other things," says a Muzak man in Los Angeles. Adds a colleague, serene in his calling: "We feel that anyone who doesn't like music doesn...
...INTERNAL COMBUSTION NUTCRACKER gave Davis men quite a bang though it never went into full production. Walnuts were fed one by one into small cups mounted on a revolving drum. The drum turned the nuts against a saw, which nicked a hole in the shell. A tiny squirt of acetylene and oxygen was then shot into the hole. The nut, leaking gas, was dropped through a ring of flaming gas jets. The gas inside the nut exploded, blowing away the shell. "It was a humdinger," says Davis' Dean Roy Bainer. "Shelled 900 nuts an hour, and the meat just...