| 单词 | cockamamie |
| 例句 | “Then Garrison planned this cockamamie game without consulting me. You know what he said when I called him on it?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Does this have something to do with your cockamamie idea to turn my yard into a jungle?” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z “Maybe we’ve done a stupid, cockamamie thing, taking these kids in,” Tiller said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “I’m afraid we don’t have a cockamamie hog pen. I suppose we could build you one though, if you wanted.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Dadi only talked like that, all formal and stuff, when she was cooking up some cockamamie plan that would usually end up with something valuable broken. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Then Garrison planned this cockamamie game without consulting me. You know what he said when I called him on it?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The most cockamamie grin has taken over his face. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z There were no cockamamie showpieces or garments suitable only for a teenage wraith. Alexandre Mattiussi, the Designer of the Label Ami, Creates Buzz During Paris Men’s Fashion Week 2014-02-19T22:13:39Z Now, in other words, is not the time to siphon resources for some cockamamie publicity stunt cooked up by a competitor for its own self-interest. Why Burger King’s PR stunt fell as flat as a patty on a griddle 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z What better way to set up the next chapter than with a manufactured cliffhanger, confected not from narrative logic or credible realism, but a cockamamie plot twist? Perspective | Trump’s bizarre post-election behavior isn’t a tantrum or a coup. It’s fan service. 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Backtracking a bit from this cockamamie scheme, he nevertheless takes it seriously enough to devote the whole last chapter to it. Michael Kinsley’s ‘Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide’ 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z “One judge really stuck his neck out in favor of Hadid and came up with some cockamamie rule about fire road law, the middle judge dissented, and the third went along and we lost.” The Fight for Franklin Canyon 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z “Act One” critically reminds us, at a moment when it’s easy to forget, of why so many of us fell head over heels for this cockamamie faith to begin with. Theater Review: Several Moss Harts Are in ‘Act One,’ at Lincoln Center 2014-04-18T02:00:15Z The story, while seemingly true, is still cockamamie. ‘House of Cards’ Season 4, Episode 3: The Trump-Underwood Connection 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z You've combed through a lot of back issues of Cosmopolitan as part of your research. What's the most cockamamie advice you found? Naked Burt Reynolds and man-hunting in Vietnam: Helen Gurley Brown biographer Brooke Hauser on how the Cosmo girl came to be 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z I’m a mere critic, not a network pinhead, as David Letterman referred to executives who made these kinds of decisions, but that doesn’t mean I can’t dream up cockamamie ideas. What if ‘The Daily Show’ Used Guest Hosts Permanently? 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z But the idiot who thinks he’s smart, and who has the nerve to carry out his cockamamie schemes, is a danger to society and himself. Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain: The Second Time as Farce 2013-04-26T03:30:45Z Most of the jokes about Trump’s cockamamie policies tried to dismiss them with a chuckle. Donald Trump on SNL: candidate’s hosting stunt was no laughing matter 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z He regales his son with stories about the Taínos, the Incas and the Aztecs, but his cockamamie tales fail to capture his kid’s imagination. Latino history with professor John Leguizamo, the CliffsNotes edition 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z It worked for me, largely because Neeson and Kruger play their scenes for relatable emotion and plausibly high stakes, no matter how cockamamie the developments. Neeson is a real action star in suspenseful 'Unknown' 2011-02-17T12:31:00Z Tommy’s story suggests that faith — any faith — is really nothing more than choosing to believe some cockamamie story someone made up. ‘The Leftovers’ Recap: Let’s Give Them Something 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z During his life, he was the world’s most sought-after scientist and inventor while being a Catholic spiritualist with a fancy for the ultra-exotic and cockamamie. Why Andriessen's daring and difficult 'Theatre of the World' will stand the test of time 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Until now they had always played ball, doing whatever was asked of them, even if it seemed cockamamie or buffoonish. The Beatles Invasion, 50 Years Ago: Tuesday, Feb. 11, 1964 2014-02-11T19:58:08Z So, you’ve landed on a theory that your cousin didn’t invite you, intentionally, and is now trying to cover it up with a cockamamie Facebook message? Social Q’s : Thy Neighbor’s Flag - Social Q’s 2013-01-24T19:59:27Z So, of course, Marvel reversed it, coming up with a cockamamie explanation that the Jean Grey who died wasn’t the real Jean Grey, who had been napping in an undersea cocoon all this time. The spandex-clad undead: Why comics love ridiculous resurrections 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z Blessed be the cockamamie design schemes of El Lay! 'The Edsel of architecture'? L.A. reacts to the Petersen Automotive Museum's gloriously bad redo 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z “I’ve done some cockamamie things in my time but that is crazy,” he said. Gerard Butler: I injected myself with bee venom and ended up in hospital 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z He is a well-intentioned idiot, a self-important artiste prone to cockamamie statements such as, "I can feel the inner as well as the outer rendering." Backstage race issues in 'Trouble' still have bite 2011-02-16T22:53:58Z And that may be the toughest, most lasting image in this cockamamie, Pentagon-approved war adventure. Act of Valor: Trained SEALs 2012-02-25T17:11:06Z “A Truck Full of Money” ends on a note of tranquillity — with Mr. English philosophical, the loose ends of his various projects, cockamamie or not, tied up in a bow. Review: ‘A Truck Full of Money’ and a Thirst to Put It to Good Use 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Your neighbor’s gesture was thoughtful, despite her cockamamie claim that the pears were always intended for you. Why Doesn’t Anyone Put as Much Effort Into Secret Santa as I Do? 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Others are mostly cockamamie, like the theory that Kubrick had made the film as an apologia for his role in faking the moon landing. The Shining at 40: will we ever fully understand what it all means? 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z Kennedy’s ability to uncork all this cockamamie and turn it into an artful, and quite dear, breeze of a tale is a delight. Turning Myths and Fairy Tales on Their Heads 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Or whatever cockamamie streaming content service your microwave company just started in an unnecessary fit of us-too delirium. From Brooklyn Nine-Nine to Lucifer: TV shows have become unkillable 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z “Any time. Any place. Performed in just about any cockamamie way.” Essential Arts & Culture: A 2017 rewind, lots of 'Nutcracker' and Bach, art and selfie marketing 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z In fact, they correlate to a kind of cockamamie manifesto delineated in his book. Noises off: would you pay $125 to hear just 65 minutes of Stephen Sondheim? 2010-08-12T16:09:00Z Fortunately, at times when fashion becomes too cockamamie to hold one’s attention, there is Instagram to save you. Gucci’s Alessandro Michele on His Job Prospects 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Introducing the shoe phone, the cone of silence and other cockamamie spy gadgetry, and contributing to the popular lexicon several of Max’s signature locutions — “Sorry about that, Chief!” Buck Henry, Who Helped Create ‘Get Smart’ and Adapt ‘The Graduate,’ Dies at 89 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z As her cockamamie tale comes out, you might have an even harder time accepting that an important literary editor would have any tolerance for such preposterous fiction. 'Bright Star' at the Ahmanson: Bluegrass, tears and a big, vacuous smile 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z Ironically, the space aliens, ludicrous as they may be, are less insulting to the intelligence of the audience than the cockamamie developments on planet Earth. Review: Why the new intergalactic musical 'Come Get Maggie' is light-years from being ready 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z In the past, that was endorsing every cockamamie conspiracy theory she could, since doing so got attention and helped her fundraise, both of which helped make her very powerful within the GOP. Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to be a mainstream Republican now. Sadly, the media will let it happen 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z She loved his way with faces and pets, even “his bathtubs and the cockamamie objects that crowded every panel.” Perspective | No one drew funnier dogs than this New Yorker cartoonist did 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z “They can’t get Congress to agree to amnesty illegal immigrants so they are coming up with any cockamamie idea they can to try to move the ball forward,” he said. UC pushed to break legal ground by hiring immigrant students without work permits 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z After all, this is the same judge who in 2018 struck down the entire Affordable Care Act based on a cockamamie theory involving the supposed unconstitutionality of a single section — the individual mandate. Opinion | A Texas judge mounts a new assault on privacy rights 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Palin has consistently criticized the system throughout her campaign, calling ranked-choice voting untrustworthy, “cockamamie” and “leftist” in various statements and social media posts. After Peltola win in Alaska, a debate erupts over ranked-choice voting 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Palin, in an election night statement, called it “convoluted,” “cockamamie” and untrustworthy. Democrat Mary Peltola wins special election in Alaska, defeating Palin 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z There were always people on the fringe with conspiracy theories and cockamamie false ideas, but they were kept on the fringe. Dana Milbank charts the 25-year journey to Jan. 6. He's optimistic — in the long term 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Jan. 6 happened because Mr. Trump and his allies tried to hack the electoral college, generating cockamamie legal arguments to justify what would have amounted to a coup. Opinion | Ignore the GOP spin. The nation still hasn’t reckoned with Jan. 6. 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z They called them They didn't treat Trump and John Eastman's cockamamie ideas about Congress throwing out Electoral College votes as being genuine. Merrick Garland "fears no person," says legal scholar Norm Eisen — and he's coming for Trump 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z A 2024 presidential candidate’s political party could use cockamamie legal arguments and antidemocratic procedural maneuvers to overturn a legitimate election or throw the results into question. Opinion | Vigilantism threatens the democracy it claims to protect 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z Following the 2020 vote, Mr. Trump’s lawyers cooked up cockamamie interpretations of the act that would have, among other things, permitted Vice President Mike Pence to throw out electoral votes at will. Opinion | Congress must act to prevent an election coup in 2024 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z I assumed Patrick Philbin, whom I knew as a member of the center-right “Tory Party” at Yale in the 1980s, didn’t really believe his cockamamie defenses of Trump during his first impeachment. Opinion | Why do smart Republicans say stupid things? 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z Olympic leadership failed Valieva, too, with its longtime cockamamie special treatment of a serial doping nation. Perspective | Olympic leaders hail the power of the Games. It’s time to use it for some good. 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Before sharing with investors yet another cockamamie report, Holmes added the corporate logos of two venerable laboratories, Schering-Plough and Pfizer, though neither lab knew anything of the report. Opinion | On trial, Elizabeth Holmes keeps playing the smoke-and-mirrors game 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z The focus, for once in Washington, isn’t on some cockamamie, far-flung distraction. Perspective | Ron Rivera’s tenure has been an off-field maelstrom. Now the disarray is on the field. 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z It was a cockamamie scheme, but the concept of Republican state legislatures declaring that the vote was rigged and sending an alternate slate to declare Trump the winner did not come from nowhere. Now the GOP has a coup plan — and Steve Bannon's ready to put boots on the ground 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Their cockamamie conspiracy theories and bizarre infatuation with the weapons of war should not continue to hobble this agency’s lifesaving mission. Opinion | The ATF still lacks a leader because of gun obsessives’ delusional oversensitivity 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z When the Bush administration proposed a restructuring of Amtrak that would have relied on states to pick up some of its deficit, he called it “cockamamie.” To Promote His Infrastructure Plan, Biden Revisits ‘Amtrak Joe’ Days 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z That's mainly why they've decided to enable such an obvious and proven con artist and his cockamamie strategy for remaining in power. Donald Trump's silver lining: Will his last-ditch coup rip the Republican Party apart? 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z The cockamamie reasoning: It had too many examples by a number of the 20th century’s most significant artists. Commentary: How can a museum think it owns too much work by important artists? Ask this one 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z There are moments when the fanfic speculations of “Come Away” feel too forced and downright cockamamie; the plot, probably inevitable, becomes schematic and the near-constant state of magical thinking too sticky-sweet for words. Review | ‘Come Away’ is a smart, stylish mash-up of ‘Peter Pan’ and ‘Alice in Wonderland’ 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z If Kavanaugh, and Roberts, take as dim a view of throwing out the votes of 76 million Americans, this cockamamie coup would have no chance. Opinion | A Supreme Court that still backs Obamacare won’t endorse Trump’s cockamamie coup 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z When either candidate is struggling they will be inclined to start nattering with each other about some cockamamie point or even the rules and the questions as a way to get a breath. Three things to watch for in tonight’s debate 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Cynthia Zimmer were the architects of this cockamamie and legally dubious plan. Column: She tried to rent motel rooms for homeless people. A NIMBY hospital stopped her 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z And then there’s the cockamamie narrative about her being part of “the left-wing mob” that wants to do away with “law and order” and is now controlling the Democratic Party. Column: I wasn't a fan of Kamala Harris. It took President Trump to change my mind 2020-08-15T04:00:00Z Niv, he said, "gave me some cockamamie reason" for doing the video. How Larry King got duped into starring in Chinese propaganda 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z People in four different time zones were doing Beatrice’s cockamamie avant-garde scavenger hunt. Perspective | Walk this way: My daughter introduces me to something called psychogeography 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z For instance, most of us remember when Trump floated the cockamamie notion of buying Greenland. All the president's garbagemen: Has Trump finally lit a dumpster fire his enablers can't put out? 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z These contests helped break up the glacier a bit, but the cockamamie qualification criteria kept the field artificially large. Dems belatedly air their dirty laundry 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z There is also the ongoing cover-up effort from Republicans regarding Trump's cockamamie extortion scheme against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which got the president impeached just last month. Why does the Republican Party exist? Mainly to clean up Donald Trump's messes 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Arming Democrats from moderate districts with a talking point that disarms the most potent Republican argument against impeachment is not some cockamamie notion that Pelosi pulled out of thin air. Don't panic! Yeah, Pelosi struck a trade deal with Trump. That's just smart politics 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z From a strategic point of view, the Kremlin’s scheme to exonerate itself, including this cockamamie theory about Ukraine and CrowdStrike, is a matter of economics. Trump's still pushing the CrowdStrike conspiracy theory: But why, and where did it come from? 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Joshua Landis, a Syria expert at the University of Oklahoma, described it as “cockamamie.” Trump’s Baffling Plan to Pillage Syria’s Oil 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Waititi has assembled a marvelous cast to walk this cockamamie high-wire along with him: Johansson delivers one of her finest performances as a mother gamely believing that her son will come to his senses. Review | A comedy about Nazis that’s actually funny? Yes. But ‘Jojo Rabbit’ is also deadly serious. 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Or terrified as we await the next cockamamie idea, “unbeknownst” to all, to tumble from his disorganized brain? Opinion | Trump’s Taliban plans leave us wondering: What else is unbeknownst to us? 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Jacobsen later refused to name her sole source for this cockamamie story and not-so-cleverly insisted, “I believe that what the source told me is true, to him.” Review | Truly unbelievable tales of derring-do and gruesome escapades at the CIA 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z “So they're doing all this crazy stuff. The Green New Deal. All this other cockamamie stuff. They’re throwing it up against the wall to see what sticks.” Rush Limbaugh: 'Democrats don’t have the slightest idea how to win the presidency' 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z The felicitously named Penny Lane might be documentary film’s most compellingly cockamamie social historian. Review | The documentary ‘Hail Satan?’ is a cheeky, provocative look at the Satanic Temple 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z He did what would have sounded cockamamie to his father: broadcasts alongside Sutcliffe. How the son of Pakistani immigrants became the voice of the women’s Final Four 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Anyone with cockamamie reasons to flout established science will still do so. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Even with Trump in the Oval Office, these cockamamie conceptions of which party is more likely to safeguard the nation have persisted. Trump is a national security risk – and still Republicans back him | Walter Shapiro 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z “It’s a cockamamie system that’s never made any sense,’’ said David Balto, who was a policy chief for the Federal Trade Commission under the Clinton administration. Trump administration proposes big changes in how prescription drugs are priced 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z We’re not sure how far the governor intends to push this cockamamie idea. Editorials from around New York 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z The comments about the Uranium One non-scandal are worrying in that regard, since Barr seemed to have developed the cockamamie idea that there was some evidence that demanded investigation, which just isn't true. Donald Trump finds an attorney general: But will Bill Barr be his “Roy Cohn”? 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Clever, corny or even a little cockamamie, you find there is an art to what is called the live drop-in. Radio and TV broadcasts take advertiser tie-ins to new heights - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z It’s not simply that the adventure is cockamamie. Review: José Rivera's 'The Untranslatable Secrets of Nikki Corona' stumbles on the stairway to heaven 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z There are so many crazy details in Pruitt’s cockamamie tenure that it’s easy to overlook crucial aspects of it. Opinion | Scott Pruitt, Gone but Not Forgotten 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z So no, Phillips doesn’t think Day 1, Oklahoma, is some cockamamie idea. Oklahoma looks to build tech-savvy city 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z That’s true of any smidgen of justice, any advance, no matter how small, that you’ll ever get in this godforsaken country, with all its cockamamie veto points and separated, federated, other-kinds-of-ated institutions. The key takeaways from Doug Jones's victory in Alabama | Corey Robin 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z The radio host called the State Department program, which essentially grants 50,000 individuals per year a path to citizenship, a “cockamamie” idea. Rush Limbaugh rips Schumer, diversity visa program after terror attack: ‘You own this guy’ 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z These cuts would be cockamamie since so much of children’s health centers on prevention, including vaccinations and primary-care visits to head off future illnesses. Congress, don’t toy with children’s health 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z So imagine my surprise when I asked myself this the other day: Is it possible this year’s baseball season has been as cockamamie as last year’s election season? Perspective | Winning streaks and home run records: Making sense of a wild season in MLB 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Wimbledon did not introduce tennis on its grounds until 1876, and soon after, it rejected rackets scoring, replacing it with the cockamamie counting of royals. Perspective | The only thing less fair than the electoral college is the scoring in tennis 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z A testament to Trump’s status as the most anti-science president of all time can be found in his own cockamamie theories about exercise, which seem based on the most advanced thinking from the 15th century. 5 reasons Trump is a health calamity waiting to happen 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z But the story, which seems to have been bumped from first to last on Besson’s very long to-do list, is tedious, cockamamie and meandering. Review | ‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’: Little more than meets the eye 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z “I’m not here about some cockamamie legacy that people talk about,” the 79-year-old governor said. Gov. Jerry Brown shows President Trump the upside of experience 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z “This isn’t about some cockamamie legacy,” Mr. Brown posted to Twitter after the testimony. California Extends Climate Bill, Handing Gov. Jerry Brown a Victory 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z As a result, she says the group went about the first few weeks “in a kind of—my grandmother would say ‘cockamamie’—way.” Meet the 30-somethings behind the March for Science 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z What kind of cockamamie event is this, anyway? How it feels to lose one game short of the Final Four — over and over again 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z This is particularly poignant because many of them voted for Trump, believing his cockamamie promises and admiring his cock-of-the-walk strut. Opinion | Being an American is life-threatening 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z A good prizefight usually has a cockamamie atmosphere like this—boxing is famously a Star Wars bar of bruisers, yappers, yes men, hangers-on and People Whom Nobody Is Quite Sure What They Do. Conor McGregor Runs New York (For a Night) 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z “It’s just some cockamamie story Isaacs gave to the police,” Denisch said. This York County murder might never be solved 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z The scheme was so byzantine and cockamamie that many suspect Plato couldn’t have been serious; Hobbes, for one, called the idea “useless.” The Case Against Democracy 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z "I don't generally even have to veto anything because they can't get organized enough even to present the cockamamie legislation that they’re interested in passing," Obama said at a recent New York fundraiser. In a first, Senate expected to rebuke Obama with veto override of Sept. 11 bill 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z The Haggler was a little skeptical that Payless was serious about these rules, because they sound both hostile and cockamamie. Bring It Back Full, or Don’t. You’ll Pay Either Way. 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z In the end, it comes down to this: the history of truth is cockamamie, and lately it’s been getting cockamamier. The Age of Facts Is Over 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z It may be a cockamamie cavalcade, but “Hail, Caesar!” takes full advantage of the glorious view. ‘Hail, Caesar!’ takes a goofily jaundiced view of old Hollywood 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z But to preserve his image, according to the historian, Kennedy leaked a “cockamamie” story that made Adlai Stevenson, his ambassador to the UN, “look like a chump” for any concessions to the Soviet Union. JFK: declassified documents reveal a cunning and cagey president 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z The mostly young men and women of the ensemble pass credibly — or at least amusingly — as gray-haired women using walkers in “Along Came Bialy,” one of Mr. Brooks’s many inspired cockamamie concepts. Get-Rich Scheme Goes Comically Awry in ‘The Producers’ 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z “Wesleyan was very similar to Hunter, in that you can find resources for whatever cockamamie idea comes into your head,” he says. Hip-Hop Hamilton 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z You’ve got to learn to trust the kids and their own, cockamamie judgment. Parents who refuse to vaccinate their children are putting others at risk 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z That’s just one of a few running gags that keep afloat the cockamamie, kaleidoscopic, languidly compelling whodunit of “Inherent Vice.” ‘Inherent Vice’ takes viewers on a sun-kissed, doped up, sharply observant journey through 1970s Los Angeles. 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z On entering the Oval Office, Kennedy also inherited a cockamamie CIA scheme to use Cuban exiles to overthrow Castro. America’s perfect, self-sustaining terror machine: Why we’re forever doomed to a national security state 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Paul is not ready — never mind his cockamamie ideology. The 2016 contenders’ weaknesses The jury was treated to a cockamamie, Dr. Phil legal strategy of making Maureen, a wife and mother of five, the problem. Maureen McDonnell: Newly convicted and utterly silent Now, why in the world would Big Pharma agree to such a cockamamie plan? A Plan For Big Pharma Involvement In Superbug R&D 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z This year's World Cup, even without Nate Silver's cockamamie rankings, has been a prime tournament for culinary obsessives. World Cup mania: Where to eat for the U.S.-Germany game? 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z What cockamamie fool decided to build a gambling resort in this barren, soulless wilderness? Why are Norwegians great? For one thing, their poker championship is played in Ireland The downside was the “cockamamie uniform” she had to wear: a bright red pleated skirt, a white shirt and a vest. Around the Unisphere at the World’s Fair, Lives Changed 2014-04-18T16:00:57Z On Thursday, Democratic committee chairman Senator Robert Menendez defended the agency, saying he did not believe USAID's efforts to promote "resilient, democratic societies that are able to realise their potential" were a "cockamamie idea". US Senate in Cuban 'Twitter' row 2014-04-10T17:14:45Z Senate subcommittee on Tuesday, Patrick Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who chairs the subcommittee, called ZunZuneo a "cockamamie idea" that endangered Gross. U.S. contractor jailed in Cuba goes on hunger strike 2014-04-08T22:22:53Z Validation in the marketplace – No corporate executive is going to gamble their 401K on some cockamamie idea. 10 Rules Startups Must Know Before Partnering With Corporations 2013-09-27T15:20:00Z If he fails, the word “cockamamie” is sure to show up somewhere in his obituary. Dmitry Itskov and the Avatar Quest 2013-06-01T22:21:34Z But it loses a little luster when you consider the cockamamie NHL changed its rules in 1999, allowing teams to earn a point when they lose in overtime. Couch Slouch on the Miami Heat winning streak 2013-03-17T21:31:00Z During his 20 years at the helm of the nation’s largest sheriff’s office, he’s become notorious for cockamamie tactics disguised as zero-tolerance law enforcement. Sheriff Joe’s posse invades Guadalupe 2013-02-17T12:00:00Z Jamie Dimon referred to requirements that banks set aside more capital as a buffer against future crises as "cockamamie nonsense," according to one of the attendees at the closed-door meeting. Analysis: Carney track record hints at Bank of England path 2012-11-27T05:44:54Z So this consumer subterfuge is likely to result in unpleasantness for the rep, who, of course, didn’t come up with such cockamamie rules. The Haggler: Blowing the Whistle on Foot Locker Returns - the Haggler 2012-09-22T20:28:58Z And it is true that we are not yet talking directly about the peculiarities and cockamamie creed of Mormonism, avoiding this subject for reasons of tact and civility. How Mitt Romney is to Mormonism what Tom Cruise is to Scientology 2012-07-10T21:03:00Z “You think of all sorts of cockamamie things to make it work.” The Hunt: Roominess Takes On New Significance 2012-06-16T09:00:05Z At least, it's a bad sign if you believe in cockamamie foretelling methods such as omens, ESP and Mike Quade’s interim record. Hawks must seek road to victory at UC 2012-04-23T15:09:00Z The cockamamie dimensions at Citi Field upset their power hitters, and they began losing games and fans in the same death spiral. Sports of The Times: Madoff Had Everything to Do With Reyes?s Leaving - George Vecsey 2011-12-05T16:09:06Z Ms. McMahon outlined Mr. Doyle’s “cockamamie scheme” to swindle an investor interested in buying “Portrait of a Girl,” and alluded to the investor’s lingering financial troubles as a result. Defendant in Corot Art Fraud Case Gets 6-Year Prison Sentence 2011-11-22T04:01:26Z Dimon referred to new global bank liquidity rules as "cockamamie nonsense," according to one of the attendees at the closed-door meeting held by the Institute of International Finance on Friday. Aggressive style of JP Morgan boss may hurt bank cause 2011-09-30T13:40:19Z To Scott Kahan, codirector of the George Washington University Weight Management Program in Washington, D.C., it all "sounds like another cockamamie fad diet." The 4-Hour Body?Does It Deliver Results? 2011-03-01T17:14:00Z True, it is still one of the poorest countries on earth, with nearly one-third of its citizens living below the poverty line because of the regime's cockamamie economic policies. With Suu Kyi Free at Last, What's Next for Burma? 2010-11-20T06:25:00Z This statement is both true and utterly cockamamie. The Haggler: Why Does PayPal Need to ?Verify? My Bank Account? 2010-03-27T16:51:00Z “The big breaking-news story team coverage — always the big snowstorm or the big flood, whatever cockamamie weather event happened, is always entered in the local Emmy Awards,” he said. 2010-02-17T02:32:00Z |
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