Word: toothpicks
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...Feng responds to such sniping by dislodging the offending bit of dinner from his teeth. It is a piece of dried chili pepper. He takes it from his tongue and places it on the table. "This is me," he says, pointing with a toothpick. Then he picks up a shrimp from a plate next to him. "This is the intellectuals." Feng places the shrimp on top of the chili; the red flake disappears from view. Then Feng leans in, his raspy voice rising as he approaches the punch line. "But tomorrow morning, when you're sitting on the toilet...
...Scotty’s” is a place of absolutely no pretension, and I like that. It is a place that employs a lot of single moms, and is a stop for truckers bound for Canada craving a hot meal. We fix our toothpick dispenser with a bang on the counter and carry hot plates stacked up our arms, while trying to soothe the extremely overworked short-order cook. We use violent metaphors like “hurricane” and “slamming” for understaffed busy moments—common...
...from the past to the future of Washington from atop the Tower Club, a posh, crusted-sea-bass kind of eatery crowning an office building in Tysons Corner, Va. Barely visible in the distance is the 555-ft.-high Washington Monument, looking like a gray toothpick far out on the horizon. But right down below, amid miles of suburban shopping malls and carpet outlets and car dealerships, is a place that's becoming as important as the formal capital of the U.S., a place that's doing something traditional Washington has never done before: generating billions in private wealth...
...like two days and ever since then, I've been a lean, mean, pop culture machine. (Don't you love fat babies? You can knock them over and they'll stay there for days!) Actually, every one is holding their breath in anticipation because my mom has been a toothpick since birth and my dad started out a twig and got his healthy gut around age 20 or 21. So it's 50-50-am I gonna be a size 30 waist and have a flat stomach forever? Or will I finally get to buy an extra large T-shirt...
Dylan Klebold sits in the tan La-Z-Boy, chewing on a toothpick. Eric Harris adjusts his video camera a few feet away, then settles into his chair with a bottle of Jack Daniels and a sawed-off shotgun in his lap. He calls it Arlene, after a favorite character in the gory Doom video games and books that he likes so much. He takes a small swig. The whiskey stings, but he tries to hide it, like a small child playing grownup. These videos, they predict, will be shown all around the world one day--once they have produced...