Search Details

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


Usage:

Perhaps the city's most famous restaurant name is Bookbinders, the seafood house where snapper (as in turtle) soup became a trademark. There are two Bookbinders: the Old Original, in its historic 1865 setting, and Bookbinders 15th Street, owned by the founding family. Alas, neither has much to recommend it, but for those with a taste for tradition, the latter is the better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Filling Up in Philadelphia | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

Lined up in punt formation, long snapper Kevin Dulsky spiralled a snap far over the head of Steinberg. The senior booter scrambled after the uncooperative pigskin, which dribbled down to the end line.CrimsonJi H. MinURQUHART holds the ball aloft after his 75-yd. run to celebrate the Tiger victory...

Author: By Bob Cunha, | Title: Kicking and Screaming | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...Radcliffe was a server of the times rather than a snapper of attitudes," says Plotz...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Struggling With the Dilemmas of Inequality and Feminism | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

...team gets to suspend Rule 1 whenever it wants to flaunt its self- assurance. Cynthia Pickles, local ice princess and founder of Overview ("a journal of opinion for all sides"), coolly sleeps with Teeters, accepts his nuptial propositions but marries smooth, rich Jerry Chirouble. Pickles' underclass equivalent is Toby Snapper, a waitress whose services to Teeters include imitations of a pliant Cockney maid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncle Gatsby in Connecticut the Prick of Noon | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

Then too there is a question of aesthetics: the American taste may be broadening, but many people still recoil from an unattractive name. So a vocabulary of euphemisms for Cinderella trash fish surfaces. Dogfish becomes grayfish or salmon shark. For opakapaka, try Hawaiian pink snapper. Blowfish are sold as sea robin or sea squab. The huge, shapeless monkfish fetches a , higher price under its French name, lotte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Just Name Your Poisson | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

Previous | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | Next