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...appearance was at the end of my very first day on the big R, as we users call it. I have no clear memory of what I said, probably because I woke up three times that night, with a start, as if someone had hit me with a wet sock. At 3:10 a.m., I remembered I owed my mother money. At 4:12 a.m., I felt guilty about something I said to my son. At 5:14 a.m., I deeply regretted a headline I had written. Dr. Mark hadn't warned me about this: Ritalin is basically a drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Staying Sharp: 5 Guilt-Filled Days on the Big R, for Ritalin | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...snowshoeing, and peeing without toilet paper. These people refuse to brush their hair. They don’t shave their legs either, because depriving your body of its natural hairs is like cutting down the rainforests. BOWL: High—going poo in the woods and sleeping in your socks make you smell like a poo-filled sock. The Urban “I Enjoy Getting Arrested at Protests For Third World Countries” Granola:The Urban Granola is oftentimes spotted wearing flowing, ill-fitting pants while trying to have a conversation about Friedrich Engels. Such situations are challenging...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Trend is Nigh: Flavors of Style - Granola | 12/1/2005 | See Source »

...improves on both. Here, six women with problems from financial dependence to emotional aloofness spend weeks under one roof in the care of counselors. The show's pop-psych devices can be bizarre--one woman and her "life coach" role-play a dialogue with her absentee dad using sock puppets--but the results are genuinely moving. It's refreshing to see a reality show about a group of women--some in their 40s--who aren't babes looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6 TV Shows Not To Overlook | 10/30/2005 | See Source »

Lawrence Taylor, the New York Giants' most wanton pass rusher, almost swooned on national TV at the sight of a new hinge atop Theismann's right sock. Joe looked up and told a ring of Giants, "You guys broke my leg." Human nature being what it is, they mumbled apologies. Theismann being Theismann, he proclaimed, "I'll be back." Football players being football players, Linebacker Harry Carson said, "Not tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Taking an Arm and a Leg | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Zealous new investors going into a hot field, chasing market momentum and betting huge sums on the belief that this may be a new era: it sounds disquietingly like the late-'90s day traders who went the way of the Pets.com sock puppet. Does the parallel bother Keith Weaver, who is contemplating ditching his job as General Mills operations manager for the real estate biz? Nah. "We might be riding that wave," he says. "But the wave is there. So I'm going to get on it." Weaver's plan is to ride south, into the Florida market. Max Kaiser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's House Party | 6/5/2005 | See Source »

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