Search Details

Word: whirlpooling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...uphill battle. Al-Jazeera TV last week showed footage of a packed wharf in Dubai, piled high with goods, including boxes of Panasonic flat-screen televisions and Whirlpool refrigerators - possibly in violation of U.S. sanctions if American companies are exporting to Iran without U.S. government licenses - but with no customs agent in sight. Only a small portion of shipments are checked, and officials rely on the honesty of shipping brokers in filling out manifests. (See the top 10 scandals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Pressure Iran, the U.S. Leans on Dubai | 4/2/2010 | See Source »

...center of the throng, a whirlpool of arms flailed in the air and crashed down on chests - a sign that not only the government but the green movement too could use Shi'ite traditions to stir passions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On a Holy Day, Protest and Carnage in Tehran | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

...afternoon in late October, Whitman, 53, was pulling all the jingles out, like clubs from a golf bag. It was the sort of performance that the former CEO of eBay - and newcomer to the whirlpool known as electoral politics - has become almost slick at delivering. She was standing on a platform, microphone in hand, at the edge of a beautiful garden in the wealthy desert enclave of Rancho Mirage, a town described as a "hotbed of GOP cash" by an attendee. She is no longer the frumpy corporate mascot who was once photographed in a beige turtleneck and high-waisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is California Sold on Governor Meg Whitman? | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...happy coincidence of programming, two of New York City's biggest museums are looking back this fall on those exalted beginnings. "Kandinsky," at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, sends nearly 100 of the artist's works up the Guggenheim's spiral ramp like a whirlpool of angels in a Tiepolo ceiling. Meanwhile, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, "Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction" scrapes away O'Keeffe's barnacled legend as the Gray Lady of New Mexico to recall the young woman who at the dawn of abstraction made a fearless leap into the unknown. (See pictures of the work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Worlds Within | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

Outdoor Bonanza. Located in Washington State's Cascade Mountains, the Salish Lodge & Spa (just 40 minutes from the Seattle airport) offers fishing, horseback-riding, hiking and whitewater-rafting, along with rooms with fireplaces and whirlpool tubs. The hotel has a package with Emerald Water Anglers, offering a half-day fly-fishing trip for native trout and steelhead in the Snoqualmie River. Fly-fishing-package rates start at $649 per night, including guides, transportation and equipment rental, through Sept. 15. Horseback riders will be set up with Tiger Mountain Outfitters (425-392-5090), which charges $60 for a two-hour ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cowboy Up! Rugged Western Trips for Office Drones | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next