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Back in the late 1960s, when Yves Saint Laurent was shaking up the stuffy Parisian couture world with his radical street-inspired looks (think motorcycle jackets, pea coats and beatnik sweaters), the idea of wearing a safari shirt laced up the front yet open to the navel was considered completely cutting-edge...
Back in the late 1960s, when Yves Saint Laurent was shaking up the stuffy Parisian couture world with his radical street-inspired looks (think motorcycle jackets, pea coats and beatnik sweaters), the idea of wearing a safari shirt laced up the front yet open to the navel was considered completely cutting edge...
...have to be careful about it ... You don't want, in the middle of a war, to go tearing up the pea patch." DONALD RUMSFELD, Defense Secretary, on Senator Roberts' proposal...
...multiple organ failure. Gallstones, lumps of cholesterol that tend to run in families, are a leading cause of pancreatitis. Tests failed to find any in Latham's case, but that doesn't mean they're not there. By blocking the pancreatic duct, stones a fraction the size of a pea can trigger an attack and not show up in scans. When they are spotted, doctors generally recommend their removal by keyhole surgery (although lots of people who have gallstones never develop pancreatitis). When the illness is attributed to excessive alcohol consumption - the other most common cause - patients are told...
It’s hilarious to watch the two men impotently muddle around with their pea-sized brains; it’s Abbott and Costello Meet Hamlet, except that neither man has any idea who’s on first. Broadwater’s Guildenstern is earnest and restless, always yammering questions and never getting answers. Hodgson’s Rosencrantz is a layabout twit, his perpetually gaping mouth suggesting a severely inbred bloodline. It is Stoppard’s genius to make these idiots the carriers of a profound existential dread; in Stoppard’s hands, Rosencrantz...