Tucked under his newspaper he calmly walks past security
Only an hour to wait until Colchester campus can tuck into some pancakes!
They are often tucked away in the rough-and-tumble sections of the city’s south side, hidden beneath dingy hotels and guarded by men in dark coats. Known as “black houses,” they are unofficial jails for the pesky hordes of petitioners who flock to the capital seeking justice.
IT'S PANCAKE DAY!!! That creped up on us. So what're you having on yer pancakes?
Only an hour to wait until Colchester campus can tuck into some pancakes!
They are often tucked away in the rough-and-tumble sections of the city’s south side, hidden beneath dingy hotels and guarded by men in dark coats. Known as “black houses,” they are unofficial jails for the pesky hordes of petitioners who flock to the capital seeking justice.
IT'S PANCAKE DAY!!! That creped up on us. So what're you having on yer pancakes?
By now, filmmakers have mined all of Nabokov’s movie-friendly novels—with the possible exception of “Glory”, which offers semi-autobiographical glimpses into Nabokov’s years at Cambridge in the early nineteen-twenties (catnip, perhaps, for period-loving “Downton Abbey” watchers).
For American author Thomas E. Kennedy, Copenhagen is defined by its seasons, and Mr Kennedy explores each one in "Copenhagen Quartet", his series of four independent novels. "Beneath the Neon Egg", the last of the set, nips with the chill of the Danish winter, a counterpoint to the steamy bars and jazz clubs where the novel's protagonist seeks respite from his mind's restless ramblings http://econ.st/1rkGVJa
"She knelt down and told me firmly to stay where I was. She would sort this out – the meaning was clear: I was an idiot male," recalls Sergeant. As the horrified staff rushed forward to stop her cleaning the mess up, he turned red with embarrassment.
"She loved it. It was her sort of joke," said Sergeant.
SEOUL, South Korea — In this city’s Apgujeong district, famous for its high-end boutiques and plastic surgeons, tourist buses unload Chinese and Japanese visitors looking for a nip and tuck as part of their packaged tour.
Stars the likes of Priscilla Presley and Courtney Love are not the only ones desperate to have surgeons fix the face lift and lip implant mistakes other doctors have made.
Eurovox's Kateri Jochum speaks with Nigel Mercer of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, who says that more public awareness and tighter regulations on who should be allowed to nip and tuck is necessary.
A revision in the law offering consumer protections to buyers of troublesome new vehicles was tucked into the new state budget that took effect at the beginning of the month. It cuts car companies some slack if a natural disaster or riot makes it tough for them to get parts to fix a defective vehicle, The Columbus Dispatch reported Friday.
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Why diversity can backfire on company boards
Board diversity sounds great. And it is, in theory. Unfortunately, few boards that pursue diversity ever see the wished-for returns. Many report no significant change in their performance, while others bog down in conflict and gridlock. Read more »Diplomatic Memo
Clinton Emerges as Key Link to Afghan Leader
By MARK LANDLER
The role thrusts Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton into the thick of a critical international problem.
grídlòck[gríd・lòck]
[名]((主に米))
1 （交差点での車の）交通渋滞.
2 （特に政治で）身動きのとれない状態.
gríd・lòcked
[形]thrust
v., thrust, thrust·ing, thrusts. v.tr.- To push or drive quickly and forcibly. See synonyms at push.
- To issue or extend: poplars thrusting their branches upward; thrust out his finger.
- To force into a specified condition or situation: She thrust herself through the crowd. He was thrust into a position of awesome responsibility.
- To include or interpolate improperly.
- To force on an unwilling or improper recipient: "Some have greatness thrust upon them" (Shakespeare).
- Archaic. To stab; pierce.
- To shove something into or at something else; push.
- To pierce or stab with or as if with a pointed weapon.
- To force one's way.
- A forceful shove or push.
- A driving force or pressure.
- The forward-directed force developed in a jet or rocket engine as a reaction to the high-velocity rearward ejection of exhaust gases.
- A piercing movement made with or as if with a pointed weapon; a stab.
- The essence; the point: The whole thrust of the project was to make money.
- Architecture. Outward or lateral stress in a structure, as that exerted by an arch or vault.
- An attack or assault, especially by an armed force.
[Middle English thrusten, from Old Norse thrȳsta.]
thruster thrust'er n.thrustful thrust'ful adj.
Definition of tuck
verbnoun
Phrasal Verbs
Pronunciation: /ˈkatnɪp /
Definition of catnip in English:
NOUN
1.1Someone or something that is very attractive orappealing to a particular person or group:both men are aggressive self-promoters andcatnip for the mediabiotech stocks have become catnip to investorsthis year
Origin
late 18th century (originally US): from cat1 + nip, variant of dialect nep, nept, from medieval Latin nepta, fromLatin nepeta 'catmint'.
tuck
v., tucked, tuck·ing, tucks. v.tr.- To make one or more folds in: tucked the pleats before sewing the hem.
- To gather up and fold, thrust, or turn in so as to secure or confine: She tucked her scarf into her blouse.
- To put in a snug spot.
- To put in an out-of-the-way, snug place: a cabin that was tucked among the pines.
- To store in a safe spot; save: tuck away a bit of lace; tuck away millions.
- To draw in; contract: He tucked his chin into his chest.
- Sports. To bring (a body part) into a tuck position.
To make tucks.
n.
- The act of tucking.
- A flattened pleat or fold, especially a very narrow one stitched in place.
- Nautical. The part of a ship's hull under the stern where the ends of the bottom planks come together.
- Sports.
- A bodily position used in some sports, such as diving, in which the knees are bent and the thighs are drawn close to the chest, with the hands often clasped around the shins.
- A position in skiing in which the skier squats while holding the poles parallel to the ground and under the arms.
- Chiefly British. Food, especially sweets and pastry.
tuck away Informal. or into
- To consume (food) heartily.
- To make (a child, for example) secure in bed for sleep, especially by tucking bedclothes into the bed.
[Middle English tukken, possibly from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch tocken, tucken.]
VERB
nip and tuck MAINLY US
If a competition is nip and tuck, first one side seems to be winning and then the other, so that the result is uncertain:
It was nip and tuck as to who would win the playoffs, but Denver's determination helped them to beat a tough Washington team.
a nip (here) and a tuck (there)
1 US INFORMAL a series of small reductions:
The department made a nip here and a tuck there, but they were still way over budget.
2 INFORMAL plastic surgery:
I suspect she's had a nip and tuck to look like that at her age.
nip1 Pronunciation: /nɪp /
VERB ( nips, nipping, nipped)
NOUN
Back to topOrigin
late Middle English: probably of Low German or Dutch origin.
Phrases
nip and tuck MAINLY US
If a competition is nip and tuck, first one side seems to be winning and then the other, so that the result is uncertain:
It was nip and tuck as to who would win the playoffs, but Denver's determination helped them to beat a tough Washington team.
a nip (here) and a tuck (there)
1 US INFORMAL a series of small reductions:
The department made a nip here and a tuck there, but they were still way over budget.
2 INFORMAL plastic surgery:
I suspect she's had a nip and tuck to look like that at her age.
diversity
n., pl., -ties.- The fact or quality of being diverse; difference.
- A point or respect in which things differ.
- Variety or multiformity: "Charles Darwin saw in the diversity of species the principles of evolution that operated to generate the species: variation, competition and selection" (Scientific American).
Living Planet | 19.11.2009 | 16:30
Ecuador wants money not to drill
The small South American nation of Ecuador is one of the planet's 17 megadiverse countries, a group of nations that harbor the majority of the Earth's species. It's also one of world's poorest nations, with 40 percent of citizens living below the poverty line. All this despite the massive stores of oil tucked away beneath the ground.
Since the 1970s, the government in Quito has allowed companies to pump oil out of the country, with little thought to the effects this would have on the environment. Ecuador has profited little from its natural resources and it's now realizing the environmental mistakes that have been made.
Which is why they have come up with an offer to take with them to Copenhagen this December. They want money from the international community to invest in infrastructure and biotechnology, and in return they'll leave half of the available oil in the ground. It's one alternative, and if it works, other developing nations home to both immense biodiversity and oil – like Venezuela and Nigeria – might follow suit.
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