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...other day I met a fellow known as "Wad Master" Steve Baldwin, who works right here at Time Inc. and specializes in creating wads (Doomspeak for new levels). Steve has created an elaborate wad that looks exactly like the 37th floor of the Time & Life Building. The Wad Master, like me, is a mild-mannered, bespectacled guy with a crayon picture on his desk drawn by a young daughter. But he has it all figured out. "Why watch Rambo when you can be Rambo?" he asks. What I want to know is how to get out of Level...
...addition to promising to cash a fake check, the suspects may also produce a bogus money-roll--a wad of paper with a few real bills wrapped around the outside...
...some observers wonder what the lure is for Turner. "Why should he become vice chairman of a public company?" asks Mario Gabelli, whose Gabelli Funds owns a big wad of Time Warner stock. "To get dividends on his stock? I just don't see it. Sure, he's a poor billionaire--but he has run his own show for 20 years. It's got to be something else. I'd love to know what they're offering him, sotto voce...
...free piety went out in January with the arrival of the new Republican majority. Some of the top men in the House leadership are avid tobacco users. House majority leader Dick Armey and Republican Conference chairman John Boehner puff cigarettes, and House majority whip Tom DeLay often sports a wad of tobacco inside his lower lip. In the 104th Congress, smoking defines the angry-white-male revolution. It is the congressional equivalent of Ronald Reagan reaching for the Clint Eastwood "make-my-day" mythology. They're not politicians; they're Marlboro...
...bring your high school yearbook, but be careful. If you think it would be a cute conversation piece, then go ahead. But be aware that when your new Harvard friends page through it, they will see that dorky picture of you in the cafeteria with a wad of spinach stuck between your teeth. Then you'll be sorry...