Search Details

Word: slabs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Then the chicken went after bigger game, namely Kane, the wrestler whose masked face resembles a slab of molten lava. Focusing on his impending match with Hunter Hearst Helmsley, Kane shrugged aside this minor interference with the Tombstone, the wrestling move made famous by Kane's sometime brother, the Undertaker...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, | Title: Charlie Hustle Gets A Body-Slam | 4/7/1999 | See Source »

Livingston's sculpture was one of two works in the restaurant that belonged to the International House of Blues Foundation, which promotes education about art and the blues, Arroyo said. She described the piece as "a slab of wood with colored engravings...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Folk Art Stolen From House of Blues | 4/6/1999 | See Source »

...just past 1 o'clock on a Thursday morning, and the towering dominoes of Manhattan are falling past her as Mrs. Rosado's cab speeds from the northern tip of the slab all the way down to Columbus Circle. At 2 o'clock, bundled against winter, complete to her L.A. Gear sneakers, she will board a van for a five-hour ride to visit John in the Elmira Correctional Facility. Door to door, counting the visiting period and pit stops, the round-trip ordeal will take between 18 and 20 hours. Along the way, Mrs. Rosado, a diabetic, will inject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Snow, in Ice, in Rain, One Mother's Trip | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

Unfortunately the rotations of skewers was imbalanced. Two or three waiters kept on coming to our table, offering cheerfully, "more beef?" Everytime a skewer approached, we would look up hopefully, thinking that perhaps this slab of meat might be something different. When we caught sight of the elusive chicken guy we practically had to flag him down. And I must say the guy carrying the skewer of little impaled chicken hearts never did make it to our table--which was hardly cause for lament for me, although conesseiurs say chicken hearts are one of the more delectable organs...

Author: By Nissara Horayangura, | Title: Stick This on Your Skewer And Eat It | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...glasses at the assembly-line progression of cars that advance to the starting line, then spurt, roaring, down the track. The small tarmac crew motions the cars into position, first giving them a chance to "warm up their tires." The drivers spin their tires on the slick, wet concrete slab, emitting a rising scream and belching out dense clouds of rubber-laced steam. "That's to get better traction," Bob explains. "You get the tires really hot so they just stick to the track." To facilitate this process, some drivers--Bob included--use "slicks," specialized tires without treads. Maximizing...

Author: By Rebecca U. Weiner, | Title: Drag Night | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

Previous | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | Next