Search Details

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


Usage:

...United States, racism is the big elephant in the middle of the room. No one wants to acknowledge its existence. People skirt around the elephant to avoid bumping a trunk or treading on a large toenail. But, despite their game of pretending otherwise, its existence threatens to bring the whole building down. However, at other times, a person knocks down a painting or puts a hole in the plaster but blames it on the elephant. This is called playing the race card. Richard Thompson Ford’s new book, “The Race Card: How Bluffing about Bias...

Author: By Candace I. Munroe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Race Card Yields Nothing But Bad Hands | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...have learned more about how stem cells work, and the science has outrun the politics. Adult cells, such as those found in bone marrow, were thought to be less valuable than embryonic cells, which are "pluripotent" master cells that can turn into anything from a brain cell to a toenail. But adult cells may be more elastic than scientists thought, and could offer shortcuts to treatment that embryonic cells can't match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What a Bush Veto Would Mean for Stem Cells | 7/16/2006 | See Source »

...repeated the word tick an ear-curdling 49 times--and vulnerable pop exemplified by the hit Maps, in which O chased after a lover with the lyric "Wait/ They don't love you like I love you." As the rare avant-garde band willing to dip a black-painted toenail into the mainstream, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs attracted a small but protective following that many bands would kill for, but they weren't satisfied. "We don't want to preach to the converted," says O. "We want to be ourselves, but on the biggest stage possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Taking On the Naysayers | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

...obese, toenail cutting can be tricky. This new tool aims to make it easier to snip from a distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genius or Useless? | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Imagining a wicked jibe from Portman, a small, soft-spoken student in thong sandals and bright-pink toenail polish, is difficult...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Screen Queen Leads Quiet Campus Life | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

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