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Europe's most elaborate duty-free shops are at Shannon airport in Ireland and Amsterdam's Schiphol. Visitors to the ould sod-even those in transit-can browse through huge quantities of bulky hand-knit sweaters ($19.75 and up), Connemara blankets ($9.75), Royal Tara china and linen. The same merchandise is taxed up to 17% outside the duty-free area, but occasionally it can be found on sale for less than airport prices. Amsterdam's 25-store operation is a veritable shopping center, offering unset diamonds, a large selection of Dutch silverware, typewriters, electronic calculators and film...
...time once again for all you pseudo jocks to shine as bright as your hero as we leave the plastic world of domed stadiums and mod sod and return to the natural turf of yesteryear, where Ozzie and Harriet topped the Neilson Ratings, Danny and Juniors were grabbing gold records for ABC-Paramount, and football was king...
...days, Laura Wilder quickly snares all the incipient "how-to" book readers in her audience. A half dozen or so pages into Little House in the Big Woods, she is telling how Pa made a smokehouse out of a hollow tree to cure venison. She also describes cheese making, sod breaking, sugaring off, housebuilding (log, sod and frame), threshing, ice cutting and a hundred other practical matters. She offers assorted facts on such subjects as homestead law, horse breaking and how to manage a hoop skirt. The odd word may mystify (pieplant, claim shack, prove out, picket pin, beholden, boughten...
...reveals that "I've got a sister in junior high; I had another sister but she had cancer." The children are fidgetless and fascinated. Finally the bottle points to Fransen, who tells of his pride in a father who came from Sweden to homestead in a sod house...
...resort of Aspen, Colo., is getting so spoiled by runaway commercialism that Author Hunter Thompson (Hell's Angels), who calls himself "a foul-mouthed outlaw journalist," figured that a shrill anti-progress campaign might just get him elected sheriff of Pitkin County. "Sod the streets, ban autos!" he cried. "Savagely harass land rapists!" By describing the job as "main pig," the shaved-skull exponent of "freak power" put off the conservative electorate, but the ecology issue is so big in Aspen that according to unofficial tabulations, Thompson lost by only 455 votes...