Sentences with phrase «older folks call»

She's what older folks call an awkward adolescent — too tall, too plump, too shy — a little too much of a lot of little things.

At least the old folks called it a Sears.

Not exact matches

With no job and no money, they moved into «an old folks home» in Walnut Creek, a retirement community called Rossmoor.

Pneumonia, for instance, used to be called «the old folks» friend» because it gave them an easy, fairly swift death.

My old friend Dean Karlan wants YOU to help improve online advocacy — he's one of the folks behind a site called stickK.com that that aims to get people to follow through on their commitments by entering into a binding contract, and he'd like to look at how this model will affect...

My old friend Dean Karlan wants YOU to help improve online advocacy — he's one of the folks behind a site called stickK.com that that aims to get people to follow through on their commitments by entering into a binding contract, and he'd like to look at how this model will affect online advocacy.

The reason that our folk intuitions so often get it wrong is that we evolved in what evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins calls «Middle World» — a land midway between short and long, small and large, slow and fast, young and old.

Called the anterior insula, this structure — which fires up in response to the face of an unsavory character — is less active in older people, possibly making them less cagey than younger folks, a new study finds.

Unfortunately, most folks don't benefit from such a nimble metabolism (also called «metabolic flex»), and so their bodies, when searching for fuel, will do anything to stick with the old habit of burning sugar.

While his old man (Fernando Luján) is withering away back at home, planning to hand down his empire if and when he croaks, Leonardo has docked stateside on his yacht (literally called Birthday Present), partying with bikini - clad ladies and basically acting like an ass, especially to regular folk.

Oh, and let's forget about the fact that this so - called ePub format was through Adobe and let's see a show of hands of folks who can no longer read those files because you have switched computers and that computer isn't «activated» for the old Adobe account.

Older folks with expensive lifestyles and large expenses may find findependence eludes them even after they reach what we used to call the traditional «retirement age.»

Traditional architecture can be seen in the palaces and temples, preserved old houses called hanok, [378] and special sites like Hahoe Folk Village, Yangdong Village of Gyeongju and Korean Folk Village.

Keep that in mind, folks, because nothing ruins a good old murder like people calling the cops.

«Some of you folks who are older may remember a character called Joe Camel; he's not around any more.

I'm Scratch but some folks call me aka (ak - uh) from my old gamertag:).

This was an old U.S. industrial town, with generations upon generations of factory workers raising families and doing the kind of work that most folks couldn't do for an hour before calling it quits.

For this reason, many older folks who call us are surprised to find that term life insurance is indeed available to them.