Word: smackdowns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Having bow-wowed officials in Washington, Lucky and Flo are now headed for the K-9 Pirate Smackdown World Tour, a press tour of sorts, so they can demonstrate their piracy-sniffing skills to audiences in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai. After that it's back to northern Ireland, hopefully for some treats...
There was plenty of renewable energy around the prospect of an Al-vs.-Hillary smackdown last week. New York magazine's cover story on Gore, written by John Heilemann, carried the headline: THE UN-HILLARY. And while Gore was basking in solar-drenched adulation at Cannes, Clinton was presenting her own energy plan in an hourlong wonkathon at the National Press Club in Washington. As Clinton showed her command of the intricacies of carbon-dioxide sequestration and cellulosic ethanol, it was impossible not to wonder whether the two of them might once again be crowding onto the same turf. Maureen...
Japanese political life is usually as exciting as a Noh play. But the events leading up to September's Diet election had all the thrills of a sumo smackdown. In August, the Diet had voted down one of the most cherished reform projects of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi?a plan to privatize the government postal system, which, among other things, is the world's largest savings bank. Koizumi then made good on a threat many had considered a bluff. He dissolved the Diet's lower house and called a snap election, positioning the vote as a referendum on whether...
...shorts versus ascots; ice cream versus English tea; stairwells versus sparkling dorm rooms—a classic case of head-to-head study break smackdown...
...explain what makes a good joke funny, is a little bit more established in the department than his newly arrived colleague, Wood, author of The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel. But that didn’t stop either one from agreeing to an FM-orchestrated humor smackdown...