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...next year, to recruit her as a draw for fans in a local race. Before retiring in 1956 at the urging of her husband--whose brand-new Ford she had totaled in a 1947 race--Smith won 38 events in various classes. "I was just born to be wild," she said...
...BUZZ The set radiated bad p.r.: there were rumors of reshoots and wild budget overruns (the reported cost is a mighty $185 million). And do comic-book fans really care if Superman is a lover as well as a fighter? New guy Routh fills out the blue tights, and Spacey looks like a deliciously loony Lex Luthor, but Clark Kent might need to find a new beat. -By Lev Grossman...
...rare move at events like these, Bush and Hu decided to sit next to each other at lunch, instead of a few seats apart, so they could continue working. Over wild-caught Alaskan halibut with mushroom essence they continued their discussions on everything from trade and human rights to North Korean and Iranian nuclear ambitions. No big progress on any of those fronts. Still, the two pledged closer cooperation and the atmospherics were cordial, if not friendly. The two men had met five times previously and have a good working relationship, and Administration officials portrayed the improvement in relations between...
...upper curve is even more ingenious. It holds a vegetative roof?basically an overhead meadow. To build it, the contractors covered a plywood surface with a drainage mat, which was then layered with four inches of soil and vermiculite and planted with perennials like sedum and wild strawberry. The roof-meadow helps keep the house cool, controls storm-water runoff and gives neighbors up the hill something more interesting to look at than shingles. As a bonus, they get to watch the owners periodically weeding their roof...
...actuality, they make one’s thighs look like they are hotbeds of elephantiasis. For the uninitiated, skinny jeans are pants that are tight all the way to the bottom. Sort of like leggings in denim form, in the sense that they are worn by hipsters and wildly uncomfortable. Unfortunately, those dastardly celebrities with their liposuction and voluntary colonoscopies have radically altered our conception of the ugly skinny jean. On Sienna Miller or Lindsay Lohan, the skinny jean is eminently flattering and does not remind one of a particularly scarring episode of “Miami Vice...