(1) Where to stay: Beachside bungalows at Coco Grove Beach Resort cost £19 per person.
(2) She was a once-in-a-lifetime gal.” A friend of Breaux wrote on Instagram: “God really does give his best angels their wings first.” Breaux was a student at Louisiana State University in Eunice and lived in Lafayette, where she was working at clothing retailer Coco Eros.
(3) Globiz hopes there's no repeat of last year's Star Magic Ball where Salvador prompted a major fist-fight to break out between two of the country's hottest young actors, Matteo Guidicelli and Coco Martin (think the R-Patz and Taylor Lautner of the Philippines).
(4) Thus we see Emma as aviator Amelia Earhart, fashion pioneer Coco Chanel and, perhaps most touchingly, the president of the United States.
(5) It is what I do with it, rather than what I am worth, that I believe is more important.” Unlike some of his predecessors, such as Bendor, the 2nd Duke, who lavished diamonds on his lover Coco Chanel and wanted Britain to ally with Hitler, the 6th Duke gave to and supported a string of charities and other worthy causes – £500,000 to farmers hit by the 2001 foot and mouth crisis, for instance – and served diligently on the boards of many military and other charities, including Emmaus , for the homeless, for more than 40 years.
(6) Doritos, Peperami and Coco Pops are the latest products to fall victim to shrinkflation as rising costs hit food producers.
(7) Cocos, the remote emerald tip of a towering underwater mountain range which was the setting for the fictional Isla Nublar in the novel Jurassic Park, has served as a pirate hideaway, whaling station, penal colony and a pit stop for Colombian drug runners.
(8) OK.” Glen Coco (@MrPooni) To clarify, this is Matt Damon trying to school the producer of Dear White People on diversity in Hollywood.
(9) The undersea world at Cocos is as fantastical as the names of its inhabitants, from the sicklefin devil ray to the scarlet Mexican hogfish.
(10) The Australian border protection vessel carrying 157 Tamil asylum seekers is on its way to the Australian territory of the Cocos Islands, from where the department of immigration plans to transfer the asylum seekers to immigration detention on the Australian mainland, Guardian Australia can reveal.
(11) Rafael Gutiérrez, executive director of Costa Rica's national conservation system which manages Cocos Island, says his organisation is working to provide alternatives to illegal fishing, such as farming red snapper and harvesting the Piangua clam from mangrove swamps, as well as supporting the development of whale– and dolphin-watching businesses.
(12) The laborers were mostly mixed Malays, and about 500 of their ancestors remain on Home island, the Cocos’ northern landmass.
(13) It’s run by Coco, who’s about 90 years old and has no legs.
(14) It's insane.” He says more enforcement bases and vessels are essential if the radar is to help in the fight against the pirates: “Right now they are in a war but without any barracks.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Turtles frequent Cocos Island off Costa Rica but can be drowned by illegal fishing.
(15) But Coco Torre, an avid football fan and the marketing manager of the United Football League of the Philippines, has been rooting for Brazil.
(16) It is prepared by extracting a mixture of ten medical herbs (Rehmannia glutinosa, Paeonia lactiflora, Liqusticum wallichii, Angelica sinesis, Glycyrrhiza uralensis, Poria cocos, Atractylodes macrocephala, Panax ginseng.
(17) The food's good, and on a cold morning-after-the-night-before you can easily justify popping in to sup an ocho coco – a mix of tequila, coconut liqueur, passionfruit, coriander, ginger and lime to help the hangover.
(18) The Cocos Islands is a tiny green speck in the Indian ocean nearer to Penang than Perth, settled in 1826 as a resupply base for Indian ocean traders.
(19) In the same era, the Devonshire treasure, named for the ship that carried it, was bunkered on Cocos by Captain Bennett Graham.
(20) The young, timid Yves had gone, replaced by a charming, seemingly assured man who was more than just a household name – like Coco Chanel, he had become his brand's most alluringly potent incarnation.
Toco
Definition:
(n.) A toucan (Ramphastos toco) having a very large beak. See Illust. under Toucan.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hens were then transferred to one of the following diets: basal + safflower oil (SO); basal + SO + butylated hydroxytoluene; or basal + SO + dl-a-toco-pheryl acetate.
(2) Toco-dynamometric studies showed that the contractions produced by prostaglandin more closely resembled those of normal labor and were less painful.
(3) Platelet glutathione-peroxidase (PTL-GSH-PX) and plasma retinol were in the normal range, whereas erythrocyte glutathione-peroxidase (E-GSH-PX), MDA and plasma alfa-toco-pherol were increased in patients with RP.