Word: snouting
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Cecil Andrus, who was twice elected Governor of Idaho before moving to Washington to become Secretary of the Interior last year. He revisited them last week, floating down the Snake in an inflatable rubber "snout boat" and heading to shore frequently to stop and survey the vistas. "I've been watching that old bird for years," said Andrus as he removed his battered stetson and stooped to peer through a telescope at a golden eagle perched like a gargoyle on a precipice. The eagle was not the only acquaintance Andrus renewed on the trip, which was organized...
...Peering out of his tent, he saw a giant white polar bear coming toward him. Uemura decided to play dead in his sleeping bag. After destroying the tent and gobbling up the food supply of frozen seal and whale blubber, the bear poked at the sleeping bag with his snout and turned it over while Uemura burrowed deep inside, then wandered off. Next morning, when the bear reappeared, the explorer coolly shot him at a range of 55 yards. Said Uemura's wife Kimiko in Tokyo when she heard about his encounter: "He is a continual surprise...
...broke a photographer's jaw three years ago, seduced and abandoned nearly as many women as Don Juan, insulted and scorned more than a few of the world's notables. Not long ago, while snorkeling in his lagoon, he punched a marauding whitetip shark in the snout. The shark fled...
Since the beginning of public education in the U.S., male-chauvinist piggery has been rearing its snout, mostly unnoticed, in the millions of textbooks that teach children reading, writing and, more subtly, the roles they will later play as adult men and women. In reaction, feminists around the country have, for the past few years, been mounting a headlong attack on publishers and school boards. This fall, through a combination of legal actions, political pressure and cogent research papers, the liberationists are beginning to win a few skirmishes, though not the war, against sex stereotyping in schoolbooks...
...home until last year when he attended the Big Green's Hall of Fame Dinner in Hanover and he attempted to snatch up some rice pilaf from his plate. For the first time he could remember since junior high his grazing ability failed and he ended up with a snout full of red and white tablecloth. Not wishing to attract attention. Steve continued to munch away until he got to a hem he looked up. The people seated around the now bare table were staring at him. Retaining his composure after a slight telltale blush, he sliced down the seam...