| 单词 | tumbleweed |
| 例句 | He pushed the dry tumbleweeds farther into the pipe with his feet and tried to get comfortable; he would stay there until morning. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z There were no flowers in front, nothing but a big, brown tumbleweed, which had been blown to one side of the front door. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z A dust devil twirled eastward from the sage across the flat deserted fields, catching tumbleweeds, bouncing them along and letting them go, weaving among the crumbled houses and rusty car hulks—a truly desolate scene. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Trash trundled past like tumbleweeds in old Western movies. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Instead of dust and tumbleweeds, mist slinks over the surface. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Near it a dozen graves were outlined in the sand with small stones, and a barbed-wire fence surrounded them to keep back the cattle and the tumbleweed. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z He poured milk for her in the lid of an old enamel coffeepot, and then he opened the pen and let them run, greedy for the tender green shoots of tumbleweeds pushing through the sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It was as clear as day—the moon was so bright—and cold and kind of windy; a lot of tumbleweed blowing about. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z We listened in rapture, and so, I half believed, did the tumbleweed and cacti, the desert, the mountains, all listening to the girl in the longfalling skirt. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Today there are heads rolling about like tumbleweeds with the motion of the sea. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He looked back and watched it bounce into the tall grass and tumbleweeds beside the road. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Hair like a ball of tumbleweed, blowing through the rooms of Middlesex. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They had a bottle they passed between them, and Leroy staggered when he walked down the old barbed-wire fence, gathering tumbleweed tangled in the bottom wire. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z And for the second time that day, I could hear my mom loud and clear: Take pride in the way you present yourself, followed up by, And ain’t no pride in looking like a tumbleweed. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z If we lived a little farther south, a tumbleweed would tumble by. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The cat pounced on grasshoppers in the green tumbleweeds and ate them from the curve of her claws. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z If the sandstorm was really strong, it knocked you over, and you rolled around like you were a tumbleweed. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The mournful wind moved like a shadow down the street, swirling in its path chalky dust and tumbleweeds. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The outer blocks had long been deserted, filling up with tumbleweeds and sand. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z A big tumbleweed might hit you, but they were light and bouncy and didn’t hurt. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He aimed for tumbleweeds lying in the roadbed and shouted with triumph each time he squashed one. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the foaming water, to and fro, the boat careered like a ball of tumbleweed blown on the autumn plains, but intact still. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I could see it growing like desert tumbleweeds below the teeth that showed in Cade’s astonished grin. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z He moved down the hill, careful not to knock loose any rocks or step in the dry tumbleweeds. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The rest was gray scrub and tumbleweed and a few prickly pears. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z He does a little bit of everything: golden tumbleweeds, cubes with the word “God” sprayed on them, resin-coated abstracts featuring loud, colorful splotches that look like neon oil spills. Val Kilmer: 'Lord, I'm never going to read this tripe!' 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z The plan consists of buying and rehabilitating a bankrupt shopping mall, which looks like something out of the original 1978 version of "Dawn of the Dead," with empty storefronts, vagrants, tumbleweeds ... and a dangerous wolf. 'Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie': a not-so-awesome show 2012-03-01T20:51:04Z “It has to have the ease,” he said at one point, “of a tumbleweed blowing.” Justin Peck’s New Americana, Set to Copland’s Old 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z That tumbleweed is blowing down the aisles of our theatres and through our museums, and that the barbarians are at the gates. Claims of arts crisis 'almost laughable', says Maria Miller 2013-06-20T22:20:27Z Scattered around like tiny tumbleweeds, they give the dish a small push in the direction of the ocean. Cha Kee Is a Beacon in Chinatown’s Revival 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Interspersed among these tapestries are the knotted wire sculptures, hung throughout the gallery like suspended tumbleweeds. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z Ms. Katchadourian demonstrated how to use a cellphone flashlight to illuminate, through the white slats of an electrical closet, clusters of gray dust billowing like tumbleweeds. How to Clean a Dusty Picasso at MoMA: Use Your Spit 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z He’s a big, slow-moving man, with an owlish face, an unruly spray of hair and eyebrows like tumbleweeds. Inside Garrison Keillor’s attempted comeback after his #MeToo downfall 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z It opened “West,” its raucous, grungy, irresistibly exuberant concert at Roulette in Brooklyn with a bit of Morricone’s “Il Mercenario,” complete with players rolling tumbleweeds down the aisles. Review: East Meets West in a New York Debut 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z But come the end of the year, more tumbleweed. The disappearance of Djinn, the United Arab Emirates' first horror film 2012-12-12T16:33:59Z Crisped in a pan, the strands emerge as a kind of ossified tumbleweed of meat, shattering and salty. At Puerta del Sol, Beef and Potatoes Take Cues From Bolivia 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z It was a ghost town with everything but the tumbleweeds. Fauci Hearing: Who Were Those Masked (and Unmasked) Senators? 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z It is there that we learn that “stumbleweed is like tumbleweed, but less athletic.” ‘Raising Steam’: a train is a’comin to Discworld 2014-03-19T18:52:22Z West of the chapel, in an otherwise desolate neighborhood where tumbleweeds would find ample room to roll down roads, sits a funky drinking establishment called ReBar. Las Vegas After the Shooting: Renewing Vows, Embracing Community 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The album's namesake song — and most upbeat, straightforward musical moment, as it features tumbleweed keyboards — is "Strange Little Girl." Tori Amos' "Strange Little Girls" is a quietly triumphant covers collection that endures 20 years on 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z The coyote howl that Ennio Morricone wrote for “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” immediately conjures an idea of the American West: desert, tumbleweeds, gunslingers. Review: Dreamy Cowboys and a Ballet Bath 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z That it’s gotten to this point is kind of crazy considering the tumbleweeds that were blowing through here just three years ago. Inside the heaving, jostling Capitol media mob: ‘We are one tripped senator away’ from disaster. 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z The most hopeful piece in the show at first seems like the definition of futility: a tumbleweed running on a treadmill. Artists turn L.A. gallery into a museum of nuclear dystopia 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z He’s also rustic, a tumbleweed of bad grammar and tasteless analogies. Modern Love: His Promise Would Not Be Denied 2014-04-04T01:03:11Z But, as the gallerist noted, rambling is how the tumbleweed spreads its seed. Artists turn L.A. gallery into a museum of nuclear dystopia 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z Like tumbleweeds bouncing in from the east, the reigning barbecue style in this desert city comes from Texas—with the addition of some local oak and pecan wood for smoking. These Are America’s Best Cities for Barbecue 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z In fact, I wasn’t even a bush: I was a tumbleweed in wait. Rejected: One man’s endless search for a media internship 2014-04-28T00:00:00Z That includes not only the expected tumbleweeds and cactuses and dusty rock formations, but also a hallucinatory desert tradition encompassing Carlos Castaneda and Wile E. Coyote. | 'Rango': There?s a New Sheriff in Town, and He?s a Rootin?-Tootin? Reptile 2011-03-03T23:01:04Z Growing up in a tumbleweed village I perhaps mistook the sense of isolation that many teenagers feel, for a condition specific to being me, to being gay. How I came out to my three kids 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z Her own odd appearances — she’s almost like tumbleweed blowing across the stage — provide relief from her severe choreographic system. Review: ‘Actual Size Plus,’ Sally Silvers’s Hitchcock-Inspired Work 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z In “Landscape With Rosettes” the textures add body to a field of tumbleweed that basks in the palpable, quietly electrifying sheen of a yellow moon. Art in Review: RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER 2011-11-10T22:55:25Z Bruce Goff in his office at the University of Oklahoma, under a ceiling made of tumbleweeds. Midwestern futurism 2012-08-26T23:00:00Z “I felt like I saw literal tumbleweeds roll down 44th Street.” No Broadway Shows? No Problem. Walking Tours Fill a Void. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z It is a blue dot in a red state, a college town whose seasonal population of students and retirees departs this month in a mass migration that leaves tumbleweed vacancies in its wake. In Tucson, an Unsung Architectural Oasis 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z “People think it’s cactus and tumbleweed but Arizona is very diverse, with pine forests and snowcapped mountains. You’ll find vineyards between 3,200 to 5,200 feet.” Sedona for Serenity, Spas and Now Syrahs 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Instead, the big moment comes when two of them, rolling over each other, slowly gather in the others like a tumbleweed. Review: The Inescapable Vibrations of ‘Violet’ 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Its streets are gravel, and the phone booth on its main street is filled with tumbleweeds. Big sky and small-town log cabins await travelers in rural Kansas 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z “So we’re telling stories that make sense of that environment as tumbleweeds of tweets roll past,” he adds. 'The American epic': Hollywood's enduring love for the western 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z The scene is as Western as Western can be without the tumbleweeds. Justified Watch: It Beats Angry 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z “They said it would be like Cambridge,” Charlie says as he stares ruefully into a landscape of cactus, dust and tumbleweed. ‘Manh(a)ttan,’ Atomic Bomb Drama, on WGN 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Nowadays, the transaction goes something like this: His congregants — tethered to their stations in life — show up each year to bask in the maestro’s tumbleweed wisdom. Bob Dylan in concert at Constitution Hall: Vexing, enchanting, punishing "Maybe there would just be an empty room somewhere with the tumbleweed blowing through it and we'd all be sitting around and wondering how Sarah Palin got to be president," said Fallon. Britain wins 5 International Emmys 2010-11-23T10:16:00Z Chuck, who wielded the might of his public position like a warhammer, is without a pulpit; Axe, now presiding over a hedge fund of dust and tumbleweeds, has been stripped of his invincibility. How “Billions” Became One of TV’s Sharpest Critiques of Power 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z The towns are dusty, Joshua trees look like they’ve escaped from a Dr. Seuss book, and the locals include scorpions and tumbleweeds. Forget Coachella, there’s a vibrant, more affordable music scene around Joshua Tree. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z But when you're in a place where the tumbleweed blows through the car park, you rather wish they were all converted. The worst gig we ever played: musicians on their on-stage lows 2011-08-04T22:00:01Z I move my feet to allow a huge ball of tumbleweed to blow past. Crystal Castles sparkle with or without The Brain 2010-05-21T23:09:00Z “Presley,” set in a sort of tumbleweed polyrhythm, suggested a nearly ideal convergence of modern jazz and country music, down to the searching pause in the middle of an otherwise effusively eloquent guitar solo. Review: BRIC JazzFest in Brooklyn Wraps Up With a Mesh of Styles 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Weeks later, tumbleweeds rolled down the slopes, blown by fiercer winds, and our front door and windows were blocked by brown explosions of thistle. How getting caught with two cans of Olympia turned teenage Susan Straight into a writer 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z His is called “Western Stars,” and it’s crowded with sweeping strings and cartoon tumbleweeds. Perspective | Bruce Springsteen and Madonna are subcultures now 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z The vacant storefronts will fill up, rents will skyrocket, the current inhabitants will get forced out; or a plateau followed by an ebb, these few blocks slowly withering back to tumbleweed territory. Art Is Fashion Is Art Again 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Titled “Predator,” it looks like some monstrous chrysalis from the Black Lagoon — a post-apocalyptic urban tumbleweed swallowing a suburban Giacometti chariot. Claire Falkenstein's strangely contradictory sculptures 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z A whole subset of truckers, he notes, are tumbleweeds, preferring to “go through life on an anonymous surface.” ‘The Long Haul’ Is a Trucker’s Slangy Tour of the Road 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Askins’s dialogue is seasoned with similarly off-kilter exchanges that raise a smile, but they arrive sporadically, rolling in like tumbleweeds across the decimated landscape. Theater Review: ‘P. S. Jones and the Frozen City,’ Directed by José Zayas 2012-12-11T22:26:37Z Bolton, 29, is from Odessa, Texas, land of “tumbleweeds, coyotes and cactus”. The cowboy code: Bonner Bolton on being the model all-American man 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Dylan blows into this memoir like a blazing tumbleweed. Robbie Robertson of the Band Tells All in ‘Testimony’ 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z You can practically feel the prairie wind blowing tumbleweeds past the rustic saloon in the right-smart U.S. premiere of “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” at Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre. Gregory Harrison takes the reins of 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z The only sound was the swinging of the rusty sign above the saloon doors, rocked by the same dry wind that pushed the tumbleweed through the dust. Saddle up and head for the cinema: the western is back in town 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Besides finding a stray recipe for chutney or jelly, when I Googled "best loquat recipes," a tumbleweed essentially blew across my computer screen. Everything you need to know about tangy, floral loquats 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z The works felt like tumbleweed: busy, even frenetic, yet drab. American Symphony Orchestra’s ‘This England’ at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-03T21:17:17Z “Subject is a human tumbleweed,” he writes of one person of interest to the police. Cold Cases and Hot Emotions: Marilyn Stasio’s Crime Column 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Lynch, with his own background in journalism, brings her fully to life, both visually — with hair that bounces “like tumbleweed on a pogo stick”— and morally. Books of The Times: ?Truth Like the Sun,? by Jim Lynch 2012-04-08T22:00:45Z "You just see the tumbleweeds rolling across the street as soon as the whistling starts." Brad Paisley prepares for ninth album release 2011-05-13T21:17:40Z “The River” starts with a high, blustery harmonica solo; it blows through the song’s opening bars like a tumbleweed. Springsteen’s Most Anxious Album 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z At times, as on a rolling tumbleweed of a tune called “What If?,” that method nudges Mr. Hall toward freer terrain than usual, which he negotiates with his usual introspective cool. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-12-14T07:30:19Z A musician’s life is a tumbleweed journey in this land. Delbert Anderson’s Mission: Putting ‘Native Sound Back Into Jazz’ 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z He said the visual landscape of that bus stop used to be depressing — old cans, old needles, little bits of plastic rolling around like tumbleweeds. SODO Track: Dozens of artists from around the world create two miles of outdoor murals in Seattle 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z The signage has been ripped from the walls and literal tumbleweed now rolls through the place. Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club: the reality show we really didn't need 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z A shock of white in the beige and brown tumbleweed. Becoming a mother at 50, after a lifetime of saying I didn’t want kids 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z The tumbleweed scarcity of direct quotation prevents you from getting a clear sense of how Carlin’s acid comic voice developed. Books of The Times: James Sullivan on George Carlin?s Life: ?Seven Dirty Words? 2010-07-08T22:02:00Z In 2010, there was acceptance, when tumbleweeds could be glimpsed in empty storefronts and salespeople became uncommonly friendly. On Madison Avenue, a New Vibe 2012-08-16T00:25:24Z For a Palm Springs, Calif., project, she incorporated tumbleweed. Bring the outside in with biomimicry | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z “You would see tumbleweeds blow across the street. I’m not making that up.” Why You Should Forget What You Think You Know About Housing in L.A. 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z You can see this in the oak catkin “tumbleweeds” on street corners and that yellow coating all over surfaces. It’s been a punishing pollen season in D.C. It could be the new normal. 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z No wonder the White House opted to steer clear of the tumbleweed blowing through Stormont. Good Friday Agreement: Does the Northern Ireland peace deal still work? 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z But Feldman said that attendance at the festival has already reached 30,000 — an incredible feat when tumbleweeds seem to be blowing across the Music Center. Commentary: The best theater in L.A. right now? It's in Pasadena 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z If all you can find in the fresh aisles of the supermarket is the odd brassica or ball of tumbleweed, we have your back… Always-available vegetables you can rely on through shortages 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z And before you tell me I’m wilin’, you ask the next city boy you know when he’s seen a tumbleweed blow across the interstate before breakfast. Tyler Tynes: Slow death in the desert. Inside Eagles fans' painful Super Bowl. 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z It sent leaves, branches and even a tumbleweed onto greens, and cardboard trash cans tumbling down hillsides. Ryder extends Farmers lead to 3, Rahm gets hot on windy day 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z On top of these formations, tumbleweeds sprouted in patches. A river guide's view of Lake Powell's decline and the depths of the Colorado River crisis 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z So the political chaos on the floor was mirrored in the corridors, where reporters trailed legislators like rolling human tumbleweeds. The flailing, tedious thrill of reporting on the House leadership fight 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z A welcome winter rain has tamped down the Central Valley dust, but high winds have sent tumbleweeds bounding down the city’s wide boulevards. Far-Right Critics Vex McCarthy in His Bakersfield District, Too 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z And, like the fictional Holly Golightly, Mr. McGrath was a shiny and urbane personality raised far from the big city — a kid amid the oil rigs and tumbleweeds of West Texas. Douglas McGrath, wide-ranging film director and playwright, dies at 64 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z Family photo albums sat in the midday sun, in hopes that some memories could be salvaged, while some individual snapshots blew through the streets like tumbleweeds. Far from coasts, flooding from Hurricane Ian devastates inland communities 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z When the wind blows, empty fertilizer bags wrap themselves around fences like tumbleweeds. The reality of legal weed in California: Huge illegal grows, violence, worker exploitation and deaths 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z But they turn out to be as fleeting as a tumbleweed blowing through suburbia by a Santa Ana wind. Review | ‘Don’t Worry Darling’: Trouble in paradise, close by ‘Twilight Zone’ 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z The family drove away, weaving through dark roads illuminated by burning trees and flaming tumbleweeds. Children in Northern California learn to cope with wildfire trauma 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z Traffic lights sway on cables as tumbleweed rolls across Tower Road. Way up there in blue: Seven children dead in Kabul — who is to blame? 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z I’m reminded of tumbleweeds in a California ghost town, haunting spaces once vibrant with life. What Does It Look Like when an Ecosystem Collapses? Kelp Can Show Us 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z TSMC’s work on its brand-new Phoenix semiconductor manufacturing facilities is advancing at an incredible pace, with tumbleweeds being replaced by factory shells in just six months. Opinion | The U.S. must remake its global supply chain for national security 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z “We’ve got too many politicians today that are like a Wyoming tumbleweed,” John said. Will Liz Cheney’s rejection of Trump cost her Wyoming’s primary election? Here’s what voters there say 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Despite its ballooning population and flourishing immigrant community, Calgary, Alberta, has always been viewed as a tumbleweed town. Calgary’s Central Library is a stunner to rival Seattle’s 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z They saw torched tumbleweeds fly across a major highway, flames tear through an old stone house and a propane tank burst. Arizona wildfire forces fast decision: Fight or flee flames? 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z But five minutes after I’ve put it away, another dog hair tumbleweed will roll across the hardwood. The Verge’s favorite pet tech 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z Moreover, these volcanic leftovers rise from the big, empty, underappreciated middle of California, where farms, ranches and vineyards blanket the valleys and hills, where tumbleweeds skitter and scraggly old oaks stand beside sagging barns. Why are so many people heading to California’s newest national park? 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Peering inside, you could see a scattering of dead leaves on the floor of the darkened lobby, like tumbleweeds in a western. The ‘Shouting Back’ Theater Abruptly Closes, and Brooklyn Mourns 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z He raked leaves and tumbleweeds away and used a hose to douse little fires. 3 missing in Colorado fire as snow storm complicates recovery effort, sheriff says 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z Dirtied masks and gloves tumbleweed across city parks, streets and shores in Lima, Peru; Toronto; Hong Kong and beyond. Cities are not only tackling COVID, but its pollution, too 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Polansky and Trout found themselves in the most remote corner of the Oklahoma Panhandle, a place where literal tumbleweeds roll down Main Street past the headquarters of No Man's Land Beef Jerky. Road to nowhere: Oklahoma's Donald J. Trump Highway runs through the Dust Bowl 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z The neighborhood was reminiscent of old, abandoned Western towns with tumbleweeds rolling by, Rossi said. For Little Italy, festival is a way to honor those lost to pandemic — and to celebrate what remains 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z “We always joke in our family that he’s kind of like a tumbleweed,” his brother said. An American Journalist Sits in Prison as Myanmar Suppresses Dissent 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Cracked dirt lines empty irrigation canals, and dust devils and tumbleweeds punctuate a landscape in shades of brown. Drought haves, have-nots test how to share water in the West 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z The tumbleweeds snagged in the wire fences along thousands of irrigated acres are reminders of just how fragile an abundance this is. Lower Snake River irrigators propose two-dam drawdown, breaking with some farmers and bargers 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z If the tumbleweeds caught in the barbed-wire, dust piled up, burying houses. Road to nowhere: Oklahoma's Donald J. Trump Highway runs through the Dust Bowl 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z “That’s the toxic masculinity and patriarchy that goes on around here,” said Ashley Sarracino, standing in the doorway of her trim adobe house on Acorn Street, a tumbleweed on its front porch. The Promise and Pressures of Deb Haaland, the First Native American Cabinet Secretary 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z As for Real Madrid and Barcelona....Can you attach a tumbleweed picture to this? European Super League plans in tatters as English clubs, Atlético and Inter withdraw – live! 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z It started to look like tumbleweed might roll across. Oregon State’s NCAA tournament run continues with a win over Loyola Chicago in the Sweet 16 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z Yes, the Super Bowl is played on the first Sunday, but then it’s a herd of crickets riding on a tumbleweed. Two months after winning the NFC West, the Russell Wilson-Seahawks rift is widening. Who’s to blame? 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z In one scene, a pulsing bundle of black fabric lurches down an abandoned sidewalk, like an inky tumbleweed. Pandemic City: Doug Aitken, L.A. Dance Project and a COVID-19 'art encounter' 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Gray, gritty tumbleweeds spun down the concrete canyons. Seeing 2020: A vision of Seattle’s future from 1984 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z The old word dwells mainly in the verbal tumbleweed of odd conversations. How will fans feel years after dropping the Redskins nickname? Miami (Ohio) provides a clue. 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z Normally teeming spaces like Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square needed only blowing tumbleweed to complete the portrait of urban desolation. ‘Field of Broken Dreams’: London’s Growing Taxi Graveyards 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z In the empty visitors' car parks discarded facemasks are the new tumbleweed. Will universities be able to avoid spreading the virus? 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z "Two #tumbleweeds are better than one," wrote Kidman in the caption in reference to the song before adding a smiling emoji with hearts for eyes. Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban cuddle up in loving new photo: 'Two #tumbleweeds are better than one' 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z The abortions were a painful and traumatic part of my life, which became a tumbleweed that just kept getting bigger and bigger. My swim coach raped me when I was 17. USA Swimming made it disappear 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z At the foot of certain shrubs in the Mojave Desert, fluffy white motes skitter like tumbleweeds across the sand. How a Velvet Ant (Which Is a Wasp) Got Its White Fluff 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z The algae easily breaks off and rolls across the ocean floor like tumbleweed, scientists say, covering nearby reefs in thick vegetation that out-competes coral for space, sunlight and nutrients. Aggressive seaweed smothers one of world’s most remote reefs 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z On the blue-skied spring Friday that the rodeo was supposed to start, the grandstands were empty, the chutes filled with tumbleweeds. The Summer Without Rodeos 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z “I’ve always said if you lose your community hospital, tumbleweeds are next,” said Mayor Charles Hatfield, who served as the hospital CEO until it declared bankruptcy. In a time of pandemic, another rural hospital shuts its doors 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z Elsewhere were Apple computers from the 1980s and 1990s dipped in glossy red paint, a tumbleweed bathed in gold paint. What Happened to Val Kilmer? He’s Just Starting to Figure It Out. 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z But on the street it’s so quiet that all I can hear is a plastic food container – New York tumbleweed – blowing down the street. 'These are not normal times': a journey through New York City amid the outbreak 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z So, too, with spiky akoub, a tumbleweed as tender as artichoke inside its armored buds; and iron-rich loof, the leaves of the black calla lily, which are toxic when raw and must be carefully cooked. The Rise of Palestinian Food 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z The space is filled with couch cushions, and Brinkman, 42, usually tops the hole with cardboard and tumbleweed to avoid being exposed. 'War on the poor': Las Vegas's homelessness crackdown takes effect 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z For the first time that anyone could remember, the independent shop on Petersfield’s Chapel Street did not have a single sale, saddening bookseller Robert Sansom so deeply he decided to tweet about his “tumbleweed” day. A small bookstore pondered its future after a day without a sale. After a tweet, it became overwhelmed with orders. 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z A 100-year-old bookshop has been inundated with orders after tweeting it had a "tumbleweed" day in which it had not sold a single book. Bookshop inundated after 'tumbleweed' tweet 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z “I’ve worked here in southeastern Washington State for over 20 years. We always experience high winds and tumbleweeds rolling down the road, but I’ve never seen an accumulation like this before.” Storm of Tumbleweeds Buries Cars, Terrifies Drivers and Astounds Police 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Thorson said that the tumbleweeds were piled between 20 and 30 feet high in some places. 'Tumblegeddon': Washington highway closed for hours after piles of tumbleweed trap cars, semi-truck 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Some people spent part of their New Year’s Eve trapped on a Washington state highway after tumbleweeds blocked their route, authorities said. National Digest: Hundreds line up to buy recreational pot, now legal, in Illinois 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z The state Department of Transportation sent two snowplows to clear the tumbleweeds, which covered the road for a distance of roughly three football fields, Thorson said. Wind-driven tumbleweeds piled on Richland highway trap cars, truck 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z Unlucky drivers in Washington state saw in the new year trapped under a glut of 15ft tumbleweeds, after the desiccated but mobile plants forced authorities to close a highway in both directions. Ambushed: 15ft tumbleweeds trap drivers and force road closure 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z It took 10 hours to move the tumbleweeds, Mr. Thorson said. Storm of Tumbleweeds Buries Cars, Terrifies Drivers and Astounds Police 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Cars that stopped to avoid hitting the tumbleweeds quickly got buried. 'Tumblegeddon': Washington highway closed for hours after piles of tumbleweed trap cars, semi-truck 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Thorson said troopers found one abandoned car that was stuck in the tumbleweeds at daylight, but no one was inside. National Digest: Hundreds line up to buy recreational pot, now legal, in Illinois 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z The cars became trapped when drivers slowed down to wade through the thicket of tumbleweed, then were slowly covered by even more spiny plants, Thorson said. Wind-driven tumbleweeds piled on Richland highway trap cars, truck 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z “People were still stuck at midnight and rung in the new year trapped under the weeds,” Thorson said, adding that troopers found one abandoned car trapped in the tumbleweeds at daylight. Ambushed: 15ft tumbleweeds trap drivers and force road closure 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z Incidents like the one in Washington typically occur when a dense patch of tumbleweeds ripen and break off at the same time there are high winds, he said. Storm of Tumbleweeds Buries Cars, Terrifies Drivers and Astounds Police 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z He’s worried that those Hollywood-lifestyle Dodgers will be drinking tumbleweed martinis and smoking cactus. Column: Bill Plaschke makes 2020 L.A. sports predictions that would fire up even Clay Helton 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z The agency builds the snowman with tumbleweeds collected from arroyos in the metro area and with recycled material. Beloved snowman made of tumbleweeds returns to Albuquerque 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z For a more tranquil District H experience — as in, nearly to the point of tumbleweeds rolling around — come before or after the noon hour. Amazon lunch excitement: All the best things to eat at Seattle’s new District H from H Mart 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z In California in 2018, for example, tumbleweeds shut down a whole town. Ambushed: 15ft tumbleweeds trap drivers and force road closure 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z And in 2014, massive mounds of tumbleweeds moved across southeastern Colorado with such force that they knocked over fences and piled up against homes. Storm of Tumbleweeds Buries Cars, Terrifies Drivers and Astounds Police 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z “He’s not alive, no. They don’t leave people alive,” the 62-year-old said as he slalomed through the parched scrubland of tumbleweed and cacti where they had played as kids. ‘The disappeared’: searching for 40,000 missing victims of Mexico’s drug wars 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z At the start of the proceedings, a clump of tumbleweed bowls along desert sands, followed, somewhat surprisingly, by two gentlemen in formal evening wear. Villains Hog the Spotlight in “The Laundromat” 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z I went to Fahrney’s Pens on F Street NW last week expecting to find cobwebs and tumbleweeds. Perspective | The handwriting is on the wall: Fountain pens are back. 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Heavy winds sent thousands of tumbleweeds into Victorville in what some residents called an invasion, the prickly intruders blanketing yards and piling up outside homes. Ambushed: 15ft tumbleweeds trap drivers and force road closure 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z At several shops, workers were pounding twisted construction rods—giant metal tumbleweeds pulled from bombed-out buildings—to flatten them, for use in reconstruction. How Trump Betrayed the General Who Defeated ISIS 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z In Paris, Sophie Fontanel was assailed with constant comments – I get tumbleweed. Glad to be grey: Is it time to embrace the real me? 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z Picture a ghost town in the Wild West – ramshackle buildings, tumbleweed blowing down the dusty street, saloon doors swinging forlornly in the wind. Observer archive - Fleet Street at closing time, 6 March 1988 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Not only were the cameras not great at telling apart humans and tumbleweed, unattended sensors, like radio and camera towers, were vulnerable to tampering. How far has technology come since the last ‘smart border’ failed? 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Other than obvious implications and soothing homages—from that Boho chic-pioneering cardigan to the tumbling tumbleweed—there's not a whole lot to go on, of course. Wait, is Jeff Bridges announcing a 'Big Lebowski' sequel on Super Bowl Sunday? - Golf Digest 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Once over, I returned to the sandy road and drove a few miles through the tumbleweeds and sage brush. The Rolls-Royce Cullinan SUV is wonderful. But at $325,000, it should come with a driver 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Untangling the tumbleweed of twinkle lights was like tiptoeing back in time. How I came to grips with a downsized Christmas | Produced by Advertising Publications 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The most explosive growth is in the Mojave Desert flats of the Antelope Valley, where tumbleweeds blow down the streets on gusty days. Decline of white Republicans on L.A.'s northern outskirts puts GOP at risk in midterm election - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Burning tumbleweeds flew forty feet above the ground, and the red cedars in the hollows roared as their resinous boughs ignited like kerosene. The Day the Great Plains Burned 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z “There, it’s taking care of trash and tumbleweeds. But they provide them with cash at the end of the work day.” EXCHANGE: Urbana and Champaign pay homeless to help clean up 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z Large-flowered Star of Persia and tumbleweed onion add showy sparkle to your garden beds and borders. Plant these ornamental allium bulbs now for springtime bursts of giant blossoms 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z “Assuming Democrats win the House, which we all believe is a very strong likelihood, the White House will be under siege. But it’s like tumbleweeds rolling down the halls over there. Nobody’s prepared for war.” ‘Winter is coming’: Allies fear Trump isn’t prepared for gathering legal storm 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z A few days later, Stucky and Agin were driving down a desert highway when they noticed one snagged on a tumbleweed; they took it home. Virgin Galactic’s Rocket Man 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Political correctness spreads like tumbleweed, but the University of Wyoming is showing the same grit that it is advertising. Higher Ed Needs More Cowboys 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z This is then analyzed by artificial intelligence that is trained to detect the difference between a tumbleweed, car, coyote, or human based on gait and other factors. Palmer Luckey’s border control tech has already caught dozens of people 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z The tumbleweed onion blooms a bit later than its more elegantly named relative and on slightly shorter, 12-inch stems. Plant these ornamental allium bulbs now for springtime bursts of giant blossoms 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z I witnessed the consequential decay of the economy and built environment, I saw the tumbleweed. 'Tumbleweed' town transformed by books 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z His language was so forcefully obscene it repulsed and blew them from the prison “like tumbleweeds.” John McCain rebelled at the Naval Academy — and as a POW — long before he was a Senate maverick 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Not the little Wild West things you see in cartoons, but massive, wind-driven tumbleweeds measuring 3 or 4 feet wide and just as tall. Howling wind and tumbleweeds wreak havoc in Victorville 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z No, not Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, but the tumbleweeds that took over the California desert town this week did evoke the 1978 film and cult horror pastiche. Attack of the giant tumbleweed: California town swamped in invasion 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z If tumbleweed is blowing through the West Wing, there are fewer voices to dissuade Trump from the view he expressed at the 2016 Republican national convention: “I alone can fix it.” 'Hollowed out' White House: Trump is on a dangerous path toward no advisers 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z A Belfast reporter said with bitter humor that the only thing missing from the TV reports at Stormont is tumbleweeds blowing by. A battle over language is at the heart of Northern Ireland crisis 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z “There were tumbleweeds going down the center of the street.” Philip Pumerantz, university founder who helped resurrect osteopathic medicine, dies at 85 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z "The crazy thing about tumbleweeds is that they are extremely thorny, they connect together like Legos," she said. Howling wind and tumbleweeds wreak havoc in Victorville 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Heavy winds sent thousands of tumbleweeds into Victorville on Monday in what some residents called an invasion, with the prickly intruders blanketing yards and piling up outside homes. Attack of the giant tumbleweed: California town swamped in invasion 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z “People think it’s just tumbleweeds: ‘Oh, it’s just a noisy thing, we don’t need this,’” said Ed Furst, president of the Teterboro chapter of the Professional Aviation Maintenance Association. Teterboro Airport: Steeped in Glamour, History and Noise 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z Events like public protests roll past like tumbleweed and are gone from sight. In This Class, Sharing Stories That Once Felt Unspeakable 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z There were two hours of tumbleweed on the group. WhatsApp: inside the secret world of group chat 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Jones, the city spokeswoman, said it is hard to say which specific lots produce tumbleweeds when homes face such vast stretches of desert. Howling wind and tumbleweeds wreak havoc in Victorville 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z In the Southern California's high desert, people are calling 911 for help because of an invasion of tumbleweeds. Attack of the giant tumbleweed: California town swamped in invasion 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z A reconnaissance of the area by car Sunday morning revealed an eerily empty city, with stop signs flattened, palm fronds littering the streets, tree debris blowing around like tumbleweed. Stories from Irma: Feeling powerless as the storm finally arrives 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z She won with style, unapologetically asserting the wrongness of the abuse that was perpetrated on her but on the day of her victory, there was tumbleweed on the Taylor Swift hashtag. Taylor Swift isn’t the first snake woman. She’s fighting misogyny’s favourite myth | Brian O’Flynn 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z “There was a tumbleweed about 3ft tall,” he recalled, thinking: “Wow, I must really be in Texas.” Glen Campbell's Galveston: politics of nostalgia echo amid faded grandeur 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z Were it a Vic and Bob show there would be tumbleweed rolling across the set. Everton hoping early deals can help them bridge gap to the top four 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z “With the winds as strong as they are, as soon as they clear certain areas, more tumbleweeds are blowing right back in.” Attack of the giant tumbleweed: California town swamped in invasion 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Terrace landscaping turns to tumbleweeds in the sweltering city sun, alongside rusted grills and sun-bleached toys. Creating a Garden Oasis in the City 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Unfortunately as the group's first hit was in 2002 and most of the contestants are in their early 20s, Marcel's claim to fame was met with mostly tumbleweed. Love Island: What's the big deal? - BBC News 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z For many, when the series appears in the TV schedules, their response is one of total indifference and tumbleweed. Big Brother: Who is still watching it? - BBC News 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Here, small casinos litter the roadside and tumbleweed rolls across the streets. Keystone defiance triggers assault on a constitutional right 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z “We don’t want it to fail. We don’t want it to be a ghost town with tumbleweeds coming through the street,” said Morrissey, who visited the Whole Foods during an open house Sunday. Whole Foods debuts in Riverdale Park, another symbol of Prince George’s progress 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z After he drove through a large swath of tumbleweed and wild plants, the driver returned to the asphalt. SUV driver leads authorities on wild desert chase through Lancaster 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z “There’s a huge void and disconnect here between the big cities and the country in this state; they look at us as some sort of tumbleweed in between Sacramento and Los Angeles,” Mr. Starrh said. In California, a Bastion of Red Waits for Trump to Nudge This Blue State 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z “From what I’ve been told, the vehicle was partially concealed by tumbleweeds and other brush in the area,” Timmons said, adding that authorities found clothing and evidence of a campfire at the scene near Hammon. Oklahoma suspect dies in police shootout after week-long manhunt 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Toni claims that the "real" map is okay because "I know there are vast areas of low population in rural America and tumbleweeds in some parts of the country". What This 2012 Map Tells Us About America, and the Election 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z It used to be tumbleweed Tuesday the day after Labor day but now its a regular small town in the winter but town planning is killing this town. The Plain-Jane Hamptons 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z And the result also speaks to the importance of the kelp’s holdfast, as without it, the redwoods of the sea would be nothing but tumbleweeds. ‘Redwoods of the sea’ reveal fundamental growth patterns for photosynthesis 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump, however, was not just one of the dime-a-dozen celebrities who pile up like tumbleweeds on reality TV. Trump’s Party of One 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z The land here is flat with scrubby trees; the towns ramshackle and dusty. Black plastic bags from local markets skitter across the landscape like alien tumbleweeds. Starving to death in Nigeria: Boko Haram is threatening the lives of thousands 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z The real map doesn’t bother me because I know there are vast areas of low population in rural America and tumbleweeds in some parts of the country, and I adjust to that. What This 2012 Map Tells Us About America, and the Election 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z His character, an aging Texas Ranger named Marcus, seems to have spent a lifetime in the kind of town where tumbleweeds just might roll down Main Street. ‘Hell or High Water’ review: A modern take on the Western 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z We were trying to think of an athlete from the past two decades who most resembled Muhammad Ali, and the tumbleweeds kept rolling through. No present-day athlete has blended fame, dominance, charisma and courage like Muhammad Ali 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z The exhibit includes an actual tumbleweed, or Russian thistle, a plant immigrants brought to South Dakota in 1873. National Cowboy museum exhibit explores western weather 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z The price of land here tripled almost overnight as entrepreneurs bought up every inch of property where pot-growing was permitted — most of it bare desert dotted with only Joshua trees and tumbleweeds. In California, Marijuana Is Smelling More Like Big Business 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z ACC is a tumbleweed cacophony of long-horned cattle with their thick black tongues lolling, llamas prancing to greet visitors two by two, and packs of pups rolling around in the dust. 'You can’t out-power a 2,000lb bull': inside the world of amateur cowhands 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z The small city of 27,000 people made global headlines yesterday after a local television station captured footage of tumbleweed piled several metres high around homes. Big vacuums could combat 'hairy panic' in Australia city - BBC News 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z "Hairy panic", a fast-growing tumbleweed, took over a street in the Australian rural town of Wangaratta on Wednesday, engulfing homes and gardens. Australian tumbleweed buries homes 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z A bizarre type of tumbleweed is engulfing homes in southeastern Australia as drought conditions persist in the country. 'Hairy Panic' Tumbleweed Buries Homes in Southeast Australia 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Authorities are unable to help with the clean-up because the tumbleweeds do not pose a fire threat, reports say. Australia town consumed by 'hairy panic' - BBC News 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z She started Big Foot’s engine, drove down the blacktop driveway and turned right, heading south onto Soda Bay Road and a life as a tumbleweed on wheels. Too poor to retire and too young to die 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z A rural Australian city is considering vacuuming away "hairy panic" tumbleweed that is clogging up homes. Big vacuums could combat 'hairy panic' in Australia city - BBC News 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z There are tumbleweeds dancing across the vacant lot next door. Ben Agajanian, the oldest living Los Angeles Ram at 96, gets a real kick out of their return to L.A. 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Laich: He was kind of like a tumbleweed and dust, and all of a sudden, the puck was in the net. An oral history: Alex Ovechkin’s falling, behind-the-back goal against Coyotes 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z A fast-growing tumbleweed called "hairy panic" is clogging up homes in a small Australian town. Australia town consumed by 'hairy panic' - BBC News 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z He noted with dismay invasive plants left behind by overgrazing: tumbleweed, Russian thistle, cheatgrass. Tension between ranchers and federal officials is dangerously high in Nevada 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z "I got hit by a tumbleweed," he joked. Who's on the ropes? Not Sylvester Stallone, a winner at the Golden Globes 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z Snowdrifts and miles of desolate highway studded with sagebrush and tumbleweed separate Burns, near the refuge, from Boise, Idaho, the nearest big city, which is about 220 miles to the east. Armed activists in Oregon touch off unpredictable chapter in land-use feud 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Fast-growing weeds like kochia - which becomes that rolling tumbleweed on the prairie - and palmer amaranth or pigweed, are defying even multiple douses of the world’s top-selling herbicide, Roundup, whose primary ingredient is glyphosate. Kansas famers fight weed war as herbicide resistance grows 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z When they awoke the next morning, the yard was covered in tumbleweeds, stacked neck-high. Watch a Plague of Tumbleweeds Blow Across the West 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z No matter how fractured his sounds, Lange remains a crooner, unafraid to soothe, even when backed by tumbleweeds of static. Don't call it Latino indie, but Helado Negro's music is part of a rising form 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Regular Eddie Izzard gigs when you can hear the tumbleweeds blowing across the plain and he ends up addressing you by name. Pakistan v England: first Test, day one – as it happened 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Oscar-winning Winslet is no stranger to extravagant period costumes, and the iconic 1950s styles are center stage in "The Dressmaker" against a backdrop of dust and tumbleweed. Revenge, couture go hand in hand in Aussie film 'The Dressmaker' 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z And, we respond — with crickets, tumbleweeds, a cynical move to delay and limit our own party debates.” Debbie Wasserman Schultz refuses to budge on DNC debate schedule 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z “We respond with crickets, tumbleweeds, and a cynical move to delay and limit our own Party debates.” Democratic Contenders Make Their Case to Party Leaders 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z “We respond with crickets, tumbleweeds and a cynical move to delay and limit our own party debates.” Martin O'Malley accuses DNC of 'rigging' primary process in Clinton's favour 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Regular Eddie Izzard gigs when you can hear the tumbleweeds blowing across the plain and he ends up addressing you by name. Pakistan v England: first Test, day one – as it happened 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z And yet in the mainstream US sports media…tumbleweeds and the sound of crickets. Salazar: The big questions answered 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z So when Murlene Osburn, a cattle rancher turned psychiatric nurse, finished her graduate degree, she thought starting a practice in this tiny village of tumbleweeds and farm equipment dealerships would be easy. Rural Nebraska Offers Stark View of Nursing Autonomy Debate 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z I saw the title and braced myself for a three-hour prairie trek, with balls of tumbleweed in supporting roles. Ethan Hawke, Drone Pilot 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z There was a tumbleweed, and a pile of bird bones. California Runs Dry 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z In keeping the tumbleweed at bay, Newcastle's arts scene has shown what a bit of high-profile campaigning and creative enterprise can achieve. How Newcastle's arts venues survived cuts 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z Workers using torches plan to ignite tumbleweed between mile markers 30 and 42. Controlled burn of brush planned on Las Vegas-area highway 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z Their reverence for what is a “day after” for Yuletide revelers offers a model of how to avoid the after-Christmas doldrums that ensue as pine needles desiccate and tumbleweeds of wrapping paper strew living-room floors. For Many People, Dec. 26 Is Also a Day of Celebration 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z He also produced a film for Walt Disney, “Flash, the Teenage Otter,” and a short about a tumbleweed blowing across America that was nominated for an Academy Award in 1958. James A. Lebenthal, Muni Bond Expert, Dies at 86 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Winds of up to 60 mph caused tumbleweeds to pile up several feet high in and around Colorado Springs and Pueblo as the storm system moved into the region Monday. Snow buries parts of Rockies, Upper Midwest 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z "The tumbleweed will start blowing up the cultural streets here," he warned in 2013 after Newcastle City Council put forward a plan to axe its £1.2m annual arts budget. How Newcastle's arts venues survived cuts 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z Garbage bags and discarded running gear blew around like tumbleweeds. Running the New York City Marathon at Age 60 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z With the tumbleweeds blowing across the waiver wire landscape at most positions, I’m going to dedicate most of this column to the all-important running back position. Fantasy Football: Week 8 Waiver Wire Picks 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z When I scored rocks and bags off tumbleweed hobos blowing through the no-man’s-land of Hackney estates, I conducted no litmus tests. An excerpt from Russell Brand's book 'Revolution' 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z In Colorado, some residents were shoveling out from under tumbleweeds rather than snow. Snow buries parts of Rockies, Upper Midwest 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z But the tumbleweed is not blowing down Grey Street yet. How Newcastle's arts venues survived cuts 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z I race around madly, vacuuming up tumbleweeds of dog hair, cleaning the bathroom, emptying the dishwasher, loading the dishwasher, shoveling more lime on the drifter’s body, taking out the recycling, doing the laundry. When the wife is away on business, the tidy homestead reverts to Planet Bachelor LaRoche whacked a tumbleweed single through the left side, against the shift. Nationals unable to take advantage of chances, fall to New York Mets, 6-1 “I don’t know how they survived,” Scott Shrauner said, adding that without many crops, his family butchered livestock and ate tumbleweeds. Hard-hit county embodies drought’s toll on region 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z De León said it doesn't make sense to start laying track in the southern San Joaquin Valley—"in the middle of nowhere…. No one lives out there in the tumbleweeds." Senate chief Steinberg, soon to depart, knows a deal precedes success 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Photographers and news crews from across Europe came to photograph the tumbleweed. Spain's Empty Housing Project Valdeluz Last fall, 45 miles of road were closed because they were choked by tumbleweeds. Tumbleweeds Have Caused a State of Emergency in Eastern Colorado 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Solomon also says the system can differentiate human from animal movement, and other anomalies like tumbleweeds blowing across the desert border. Shadow border: inside Arizona's plan to watch Mexico with an army of radar towers 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Mosul reminded Eugene of a movie, he said: an old western in which the bad guys take over some small town, and all the townsfolk hide indoors and tumbleweed blows across the screen. A Revolutionary Approach to Treating PTSD 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z “There were literally tumbleweeds blowing in the street and sand dunes where Battery Park City is now,” Mr. Harris recalled. The Appraisal: Before an Architect Was Evicted, a Deal to Redesign the Home He Had to Leave 2014-04-21T22:20:52Z Gonzalez allowed only three hits, all of them singles, one of them a tumbleweed that rolled to the wrong place of a Nationals’ infield shift. Gio Gonzalez dominates Miami Marlins, lifts Washington Nationals to 5-0 win 2014-04-09T02:43:41Z International investment is "simply pushing up the prices, and creating, in some parts of London, ghost towns. I'm waiting for the tumbleweeds to start blowing down main street." London Planner Shielded Oasis of Commerce 2014-04-08T08:28:14Z Tangled clusters of tumbleweeds clog drainage culverts, block rural roads, and plaster the walls of buildings, at times trapping residents in their homes. Tumbleweeds plague drought-stricken American West 2014-03-27T14:05:29Z Garbage rolls like tumbleweeds across the dusty hills beyond the outfield fence while an unfinished apartment building looks down from above. Rivera brings career full circle with one pitch 2014-03-16T02:56:20Z Over the decades, they’ve operated like an Arkansas tumbleweed, collecting friends and devotees from Bill Clinton’s kindergarten class to Yale Law School to Little Rock to the White House to the Senate and beyond. Planet Hillary 2014-01-24T10:00:04Z The police say they are simply trying to maintain order at a time when downtown Los Angeles, once a place of urban tumbleweeds and the homeless, is teeming with people competing for pavement with automobiles. In a Car-Culture Clash, It’s Los Angeles Police vs. Pedestrians 2013-12-26T01:49:53Z A vulture is perched at the far end of the checkout counter, tumbleweed rolls through the empty aisles, a rat nibbles on an Ipod Hi Fi that is moldering on the floor. I Was Misinformed: It’s a Wonderful Last Few Years of Life 2013-12-11T13:00:01Z In late January, an invasion of tumbleweeds rolled into Clovis, New Mexico, trapping Wilford Ransom, 80, and his wife, Mary, in their home. Tumbleweeds plague drought-stricken American West 2014-03-27T14:05:29Z MySpace went from being a thriving community to a wasteland filled with tumbleweed so quickly precisely because those network effect operate in both directions. The Scariest Line Lurking In Facebook's Recent Results 2013-11-11T17:06:00Z The corner was so desolate that I expected tumbleweed to bounce through. Straight Sets: U.S. Open Food Review: Better Late Than Never 2013-09-06T20:39:38Z Around it, a black chain-link fence catches the plastic cups, paper and other debris that roll along like tumbleweeds. Prime Lot, Empty for Years (Yes, This Is Manhattan) 2013-08-20T00:46:46Z The tumbleweed was knocking around in his phone inbox, and disappointment had set in. Online dating: do men get ignored more often than women? 2013-07-26T08:09:27Z Johnson claimed it was a myth that Heathrow would be "a tumbleweed infested ghost town or a waste land". Boris Johnson: Heathrow closure would allow building of new garden city 2013-07-15T13:57:26Z But like tumbleweed, Labour policies put down no roots to anchor ideas of collective provision and social protection. Labour's spending worked. Why don't they defend it? 2013-07-02T06:00:34Z “Did you kill that tumbleweed yourself or not?” Tumbleweeds and indelicate questions 2013-02-27T18:21:13.183Z Nothing funny about that, you might think as the tumbleweed whistles past, and Mallorca's fans would agree. Real Mallorca sense hope in the most unlikely form: Gregorio Manzano 2013-02-11T16:14:34Z With no Kyrgyzstani or Russians present a tumbleweed moment of Pinteresque silence followed, then she walked off. London 2012: the best moments of a golden Games 2012-08-13T10:00:00Z And we await confirmation of the time of the first tumbleweed blowing through the Stratford site after the circus leaves town. Olympic success sticks in Mr Salmond's craw 2012-08-11T23:04:11Z It has been estimated that a species of tumbleweed spread from the US Mid-West to the Pacific coast in just over a decade. Olympians of the botanical world 2012-07-31T23:13:09Z “That why the call them tumbleweeds,” the mechanic said, “or coconut trolls.” Tumbleweeds and indelicate questions 2013-02-27T18:21:13.183Z The realism of the sage and tumbleweed scattered plateaus burning orange against a falling sun…well you may as well be riding through a Zane Grey novel, or driving across southern Utah. The Quest For Verisimilitude: Realism, Illusion, and Consistency In Video Games 2012-07-10T18:30:57Z Banning them is like banning nose jobs and face lifts – at which point, Ascot would be a barren landscape soundtracked by tumbleweeds and crickets. Should tattooed ladies be allowed into Ascot? 2012-06-23T17:00:01Z There is no tumbleweed blowing past the chapel outside the hotel but there should be. Volcano gives Bradley Wiggins the fire for assault on Tour de France 2012-05-22T23:06:15Z At least according to a new study that paints the social networking site as a virtual tumbleweed town. Is Google+ a Ghost Town, and Does It Matter? 2012-05-16T10:07:32Z But some of their neighbors look more like tangled tumbleweeds. Know Your Neurons: The Discovery and Naming of the Neuron 2012-05-14T18:15:00.220Z This time, a horse broke its leg, pitching its rider — who happened to be Chris Zamora — into the ground, where rider and animal rolled like tumbleweeds across the finish line. Death and Disarray at America?s Racetracks 2012-03-24T19:30:47Z "They predict that tumbleweed will be going down Shaftesbury Avenue," Johnson said, referring to a main London thoroughfare. London Olympic travel plan: Be patient, drink beer 2012-01-30T15:41:18Z Every fall, the Santa Ana winds arrive in Southern California, blowing off the desert and pushing their way west, whirring up tumbleweeds and whisking off branches. Santa Ana Winds Buffet California 2011-12-02T01:47:40Z Under the words “Unemployment Has Doubled,” a tumbleweed rolls across a barren highway. The Caucus: Presidential Campaign Ads Are Tried and True 2011-10-31T01:12:55Z Yes, the tumbleweeds are on the move again. Tumbleweeds Are Piling Up Across the Plains 2011-10-27T14:56:40Z He tried to force the issue by posting to the hash-tags, but he was a lone voice in the wilderness, tumbleweed blowing through his posts. Twitterspace 2011-09-14T21:50:34.070Z But today I click on my newsfeed and see tumbleweed blowing through the barren, blank page. A Eulogy for Google Plus 2011-08-15T14:54:07Z Wyoming’s symbol is the bucking cowboy, but the tumbling tumbleweed works, too, especially in thinking about the strange journey of the Chugwater Soda Fountain. Out Here: Chugwater, Wyo.: A Soda Fountain Where Artifacts Tend to Drift in. (The Customers, Too.) 2011-06-03T03:17:40Z The land is yellow and brown, covered in scrub brush, dry grass, mesquite, tumbleweed, and sage. Archive: POM Wonderful and the FTC 2011-05-25T00:11:54Z The tumbleweed season is, mercifully, not that long. Tumbleweeds Are Piling Up Across the Plains 2011-10-27T14:56:40Z Cars crushed from spinning like tumbleweeds over the ground. Joplin stunned by deadly tornado's power 2011-05-24T05:43:08Z We fell in love with tumbleweed and never while it was in sight lost interest in its idiotic evolutions. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z She painstakingly cleared the stony ground of Russian thistles, embryo tumbleweeds, stickers, and rocks. Four and Twenty Beds 2011-03-30T02:00:13.610Z Dark specks loomed up through the mist, and many a detour I made with pounding heart, to find only a prairie boulder or a lump of tumbleweed blown into a wolf willow. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z “It’s wide open spaces where the wind really blows where you will really see tumbleweeds tumbling,” said Mr. Haddock, an assistant dean at Kansas State University Libraries. Tumbleweeds Are Piling Up Across the Plains 2011-10-27T14:56:40Z If you aren’t allergic to dust mites, forget the urban horror stories about tumbleweeds of mite feces blowing through your home. Patient Money: Who Should Worry About Dust Mites (and Who Shouldn?t) 2011-03-04T15:23:01Z I think, though I am not sure, that it was before we crossed the Colorado line when we saw our first 'dobe house, our first sage brush, and our first tumbleweed. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z In a district representing northern Manhattan and a small part of the Bronx, where conservative voters are about as rare as tumbleweeds, the nomination did not stand out. Dead Man on Ballot: An Election Mystery 2011-01-30T02:10:04Z The tricky part is rising again, without help, under a tumbleweed of tulle. City Room: Nocturnalist|Dipping With the Debs 2010-12-30T15:29:28Z “People here already know about tumbleweeds,” she said. Tumbleweeds Are Piling Up Across the Plains 2011-10-27T14:56:40Z But three years later, piles of bricks and barbed wire lie around, and tumbleweed is growing in the caked sand. U.S. wasted billions in rebuilding Iraq 2010-08-30T13:21:00Z I well remember the first tumbleweed we saw. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z Gruman's description of the presentation makes it sound like one of those uncomfortable events where the tumbleweed was always at risk of rolling past. Windows Phone 7 a 'disaster' says Infoworld after developer demo 2010-07-16T15:42:00Z When Lehman went down, most observers forecast there would tumbleweed blowing down the streets by now. Election campaign bypasses bankers 2010-04-12T17:23:00Z The ill-equipped have their moments and then drop away to the fringes – psychological and geographical – where tumbleweed blows through dreams, or the urge to rise again sparks a revival. Norwich City 1-0 Leeds United 2010-03-27T19:59:00Z Remember when cigarette ads on TV used to equate smoking with a long, satisfying gallop through the tumbleweeds? 2010-02-05T00:05:00Z Who shall say that tumbleweed is useless, since it contributes a rare note of drollery to the tragic desolation of the western plains? Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z The machine lighted as softly on the carpet of tumbleweed as might a fluff of thistle-down. The Trail of Conflict A little later in the year we should be running between lines of fire, and those big balls of tumbleweed would be racing ahead of the wind like small meteors. A Romance in Transit Rollicking tumbleweed did not worry him any more than did the swirling dust-devils. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance He turned around to put down th’ bottle, and I started for to light my cigar with a parlor-match, and, by gum! away went my whiskers on fire––burnt jus’ like a tumbleweed. Whispering Smith They bounced off a cliff, turned over and over like a tumbleweed. The Martian Cabal She wasted time in trying to dip deep enough to get clear of the tumbleweed which floated on top. The Trail of Conflict The bleached grass waved, the tumbleweeds rolled along the brown ground. Valley of Wild Horses When twilight came he had found a perch in a pile of tumbleweed, far from the sheltering bushes by the river. The Biography of a Prairie Girl June’s feet were bleeding, though she picked a way in the grama-grass and the tumbleweed to save them as much as possible. The Fighting Edge It is called Amaranthus albus in the books, and is one of the most prominent of our tumbleweeds. Seed Dispersal Over its surface, pockmarked with gopher holes, tumbleweed rolled and billowed and stacked against rocks and fallen timber in uncanny, shifting masses. The Trail of Conflict Without the slightest hesitation, Fountain jumped after him, hitting the ground only a few seconds behind him but thirty or forty yards away, rolling like a tumbleweed along the ground. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier There flamed in him, like fire in dead tumbleweeds, a surge of glad triumph that inexplicably blended with humble thankfulness. Oh, You Tex! The things rolled over and over on themselves, like gigantic tumbleweeds. Out Around Rigel In autumn the careful observer with an eye to this subject will be rewarded by finding many other plants that behave more or less as tumbleweeds. Seed Dispersal The tumbleweed still stirred with every breath of air but everything else was still. The Trail of Conflict The wind tossed him like a plaything as it tossed the big round tumbleweeds, making the pace for him a little beyond. The Way of the Wind Brand my tumbleweed salad," Chow grumbled, "he sure wasn't takin' no chances on people findin' out who he is! Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X For this field on the other side was the wide, open plain; and it was grown over by tiny, half-knee high thickets of tumbleweed with here and there a trifle of sagebrush. The Killer Low hop clover, an annual with yellow flowers, which has been naturalized from Europe, has developed recently on strong clay land into a tumbleweed six inches in diameter. Seed Dispersal Besides the cactus, another form of vegetation which began to attract more and more of Ollie's attention was the red tumbleweed. The Voyage of the Rattletrap Grasses with long human fingers beckoned him to the Unknown, which is always terrible, while great ever-moving tumbleweeds sprang up at him as if from underground, like enormous heads of resurrected giants. The Way of the Wind You went off and left your eighty, Roaming where the luck-wind blows, Like a tumbleweed in winter, Where you've been, Lord only knows. Nancy MacIntyre The tumbleweed banked high wherever, in the mysterious dispensations of Providence, a call for tumbleweed had made itself heard. The Killer During the Middle Ages in southern Egypt and Arabia, and eastward, a small plant, with most of the peculiarities of our tumbleweed just described, was often seen, and was thought to be a great wonder. Seed Dispersal On the way we saw thousands of the biggest and reddest tumbleweeds, and two or three new sorts of cactus. The Voyage of the Rattletrap It tore at her as though to toss her to unreachable distances in the way it ripped the tumbleweeds from their small brittle stems and tossed them away. The Way of the Wind When clearing the land for cultivation, we would cut the bushes off just under the surface of the ground and wait for strong winds to roll them away like tumbleweeds. The Life of Me; an autobiography After the breeze has died the debauched old tumbleweeds are everywhere to be seen, piled up against brush, choking the ditches, filling the roads. The Killer Those nation-loved children of theirs compared with the average in our country as the most perfectly cultivated, richly developed roses compare with—tumbleweeds. Herland The ordinary tumbleweed, green when growing and gray when tumbling, had long been familiar to us, but the red variety was new. The Voyage of the Rattletrap Once it tossed a tumbleweed at the window. The Way of the Wind "I've seen little calves lyin' in heaps against the fence like drifts of tumbleweed," said Windy, soberly; and then added, without apparent passion, "The old——!" The Killer Every man retrieved his own birds, a matter of some difficulty in the tumbleweed. The Killer This I constructed of tumbleweed and willow shoots, with a lucky sagebrush as a good basis. The Killer "Look at that overgrown red tumbleweed!" exclaimed Jack. The Voyage of the Rattletrap After a time we turned off the road and into a country covered over with tumbleweed, a fine umber red growth six or eight inches high, and scattered sagebrush. The Killer And then, inasmuch as the tumbleweed is roughly globular in shape, some three or four feet in diameter, and exceedingly light in structure, over and over it rolls across the plain! The Killer Each man hunted for himself, circling the tumbleweed patches, combing carefully their edges for the quail that sometimes burst into the air fairly at his feet. The Killer "If he ever came up to a tumbleweed he would lie right down on it and go to sleep." The Voyage of the Rattletrap As they came up we could see little but tumbleweed and pony legs, and it looked like nothing so much as a hay-stack running away on its own legs. The Voyage of the Rattletrap No matter how wide the fire-break may be, a blazing tumbleweed will often roll across it and set tire to the grass beyond. The Voyage of the Rattletrap I believe," he went on, "that tumbleweeds might be used to carry messages, like carrier-pigeons. The Voyage of the Rattletrap |
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