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...three-pack, it had better. (My Folgers was $5.99 for a 60-cup jar, even at the usurious prices of a Brooklyn bodega.) The resulting coffee dust (more like espresso than the usual crystals) comes packaged in a sort of coffee Pixie Stix, premeasured. (See the top 10 food trends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Via Taste Test: Grading Starbucks' New Instant Coffee | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

...women. So I think, unfortunately, softball got caught up in the shotgun blast against baseball." A few seconds after Pound spoke from the stands, American Crystl Bustos hit her sixth home run of the tournament, a rocket into the right field seats. The capacity crowd roared, and the Thunder-Stix clapped. Does modern pentathlon draw this kind of lively crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jennie Finch Goes Out on a Losing Note | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

...those strutting pros and hardened fans in today's hoop arenas, and the chemistry is ripe for agitation. Games aren't mere athletic contests; they are in-your-face productions. Laser-light-show introductions, clatter-making Thunder Stix and scoreboard exhortations for more noise contribute to an atmosphere of confrontation. Players shooting free throws used to be accorded an almost respectful silence. Now fans attempt to distract them by jeering and waving towels. It doesn't work, but that doesn't stop the fans' behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Fans and Players and Playing So Rough | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...mark on QVC selling curtains, doesn't sew a stitch if she can avoid it. Yet Semi-Homemade is broad in other directions, encompassing, for example, romance in a "Sexy in Seventeen Minutes" feature in its online magazine. There she advises fans to spend minute 14 brushing Pixy Stix candy powder over chest and cleavage to "take even the busiest multitasker from tired to tantalizing." Such are the warmth and zeal of Lee that you almost believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Will Be The Next Domestic Diva? | 2/16/2004 | See Source »

...because Mommy is paranoid. And they are definitely not allowed to dress up like they're preparing for jihad. No ninjas, no turbans, no water guns, no play guns. And with all this crazy stuff in the mail, I'm laying down the law. Nothing powdery! No more Pixy Stix this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red, White and Boo! | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

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