Word: whirling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Redux isn't an amphetamine, isn't addictive, and has limited side effects. I knew I wasn't the ideal candidate for the drug--it's supposed to be used by Chris Farley-type fatties, not guys with little potbellies. Still, I was determined to give it a whirl. I went to one of the new pill mills that have sprung up around Los Angeles, but was instantly turned off by the high-pressure jive. So I asked my cardiologist for a prescription. He reluctantly wrote one out and offered some nutritional guidance...
When we heard that MTV's "The Real World" wanted to recruit at Harvard for a Boston season, our minds began to whirl. Harvard students have many attributes, not least among them their ability to digress at length upon angst-ridden topics. Give them a camera, and hey, you might never get them to shut...
...stars: a training academy, prison camp, hotel resort, rural village, drug kingpin's estate and more. The core duo, what you're paying money to see, is Chan as the eponymous cop from Hong Kong and Michelle Khan as a stern police chief from China. Together they whirl their way through disguises and bluffs in an effort to dismantle a drug ring. The presence of the Supercop's girlfriend, played by Maggie Cheung, allows for some funny misunderstandings...
...always been open about the fact that, like Powell, I had trouble deciding whether to give it a whirl. For instance, at about the age of 12, I read that the President had returned to Washington to deal with the budget, and I announced that any job dealing with a budget...
...severe-weather videos and TV specials, nature in extremis provides the voyeuristic thrill of an environmental porno flick. Houses pummeled by hurricane-force winds tumble into the sea. People run screaming from rooms rocked by earthquakes. And in video shot by professional storm chasers and plucky amateurs, funnel clouds whirl forebodingly, kick up a storm of debris and move menacingly closer. Sometimes too close. In one oft-seen clip, a family scrambles for shelter as a tornado bears down on their living room: "Tree just blew over...Get away from the windows...