Word: squirts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...angular momentum very efficiently is to squirt material out the poles of a rotating system,” says Goodman. Goodman and Borkin’s research focuses on counting and measuring these outflows...
...country stages massive celebrations in honor of Chinese New Year. Finally, on April 13 Thailand celebrates the first day of the traditional Thai calendar with Songkran, a three-day festival marked by parades, feasts and a water-throwing free-for-all in which people roam the streets with squirt guns, bowls of water and garden hoses, drenching passersby--and themselves--in the process. The water represents purification, but it also brings the revelers welcome relief: April is the hottest month of the year in Thailand...
...those “weeping” statues, but it is the only one in the world that actually lactates from its pure bronze nipples. We suppose it’s ironic that such an ancient man is in possession of these two potent fountains of youth, which squirt an elixir so sweet that it can instantly defeat even the most belligerent seasonal colds...
...books of the year, as well as the most disgusting. The first story of the first volume starts like a typical shojo book might, with a bunch of school girls tormenting their cute classmate Takako. But in this version, they jump on top her and make her lunch vegetables squirt out her nose. She decides "I'll open my heart and reach out to them! Then they'll stop bullying me!" Instead they throw her in the pool and force her to eat octopus (the Japanese word for octopus, tako, sounds like Takako). Overnight she sprouts octopus legs and wreaks...
...kids are to smoke, drink, do drugs, get depressed, develop eating disorders and consider suicide, and the more likely they are to do well in school, delay having sex, eat their vegetables, learn big words and know which fork to use. "If it were just about food, we would squirt it into their mouths with a tube," says Robin Fox, an anthropologist who teaches at Rutgers University in New Jersey, about the mysterious way that family dinner engraves our souls. "A meal is about civilizing children. It's about teaching them to be a member of their culture...