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...father, Riad, said that the police "executed" his son in cold blood in front of dozens of eye witnesses. "He had just finished praying at the mosque and was drinking a juice and eating a sandwich," he said. "He was only 24 and they shot him like a dog." Bilal died on the sidewalk of a narrow dirty street of drab apartment blocks on one side and a small garden and beige stone clad mosque on the other. Since his death, the Lebanese army and police apparently have not entered the area, wary of the simmering resentment in this close...
...also gained national notoriety in 2006 when his legislation to ban the “Fluffernutter”—a sandwich made of peanut butter and Marshmallow Fluff—in public schools was mocked as an example of legislative micromanaging. Barrios later signed on to a bill to make the “Fluffernutter” the official state sandwich...
...piled on your plate. So giant servings are a win-win: you pay a little extra for a lot more food, and the restaurant makes extra profit. It's the same rule that created tubs of movie popcorn, venti-size coffee cups and Burger King's Meat'normous Omelet Sandwich. It's why no restaurant will ever give you a reasonably sized stack of pancakes...
Original Mercury 7 astronaut Walter Schirra Jr. was perfect for the part of brash space pioneer. The only one to fly in all three of NASA's first space programs, the garrulous, coolly competent perfectionist had a blast, smuggling a corned-beef sandwich aboard the Mercury, joking to reporters about his thoughts before a launch ("This was all put together by the lowest bidder") and cheering Americans with intra-capsule antics covered on TV. Yet he was the go-to guy for such delicate assignments as Gemini 6A--in which he made a critical snap call to stay aboard after...
First, drivers might consciously take a moment to look in the immediate path of their cars. Syndrome sufferers often find it irresistible to talk on their cell phones, munch on a sandwich from Whole Foods, or read the Communist Manifesto while tearing up Broadway at 40 miles per hour. I beg of you—fight the urge, lest you end up sending the next Karl Marx to University Health Services. Yes, it may be expected that we walkers look both ways before we cross, but the maddening preponderance of one-way streets in this city has lulled us into...