Word: all-round
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stands to reason that the newspaper correspondent conceded by his colleagues to be Washington's all-round best would be cynical and a bit smug...
...agreement, would like another 25. At the same time, Israel hopes to purchase four times as many Skyhawks, a far slower (675 m.p.h.) but also far cheaper plane ($4,000,000 for the Phantom; $1,200,000 for the Skyhawk). Israeli pilots call the Skyhawk the best all-round tactical bomber in the world. Originally developed for the U.S. Navy, the Skyhawk carries only half as much armament as the Phantom. But it is highly maneuverable, takes hard punishment and offers a small target. Skyhawks also require about six hours of maintenance for every hour of combat; the intricate Phantom...
Though most critics gave the dictionary good marks, some argued that the Random House or Merriam-Webster dictionaries were better all-round books. The publishers do not brood over criticisms. Besides, the graduation season will soon begin, and that is one of the best-selling times of the year for the men who market dictionaries...
This feeling is reinforced by an all-round frustration. "Nothing seems to work properly any more," says Political Analyst William Pfaff. "Industry makes cheap goods but wrecks the landscape and pollutes the air and rivers. Technocrats tell us all problems are soluble, but their submarines sink at the dock and scientific administrators spill nerve gas onto grazing lands and then lie about it. Bureaucracies make the system function, but they meddle in private lives...
...killers in Cosa Nostra's history-eventually retired to Tucson, Ariz., where, amid his fig and orange trees, he now lives modestly, reflecting on his days of power and plotting his comeback. His life is not entirely normal, however. The FBI tried, unsuccessfully, to recruit his confidant and all-round handyman, David Hill, 21, as an informer. Once a bomb landed in Bonanno's backyard. He thinks that an FBI agent may have prompted two young thugs to throw the bomb and start a fight between Bonanno and another mobster-a sequel to the "Banana War" that followed...