Word: arounders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been working on it for five years before we got to the shooting stage. Everything was pretty much nailed down. What I love about moviemaking is that you're under the gun. You've got 250 people standing around waiting. I love to work under that kind of pressure...
...Volvo 544, one of the first cars with a shoulder belt. It hung on a little peg behind you. I was on my way to work, and I realized I didn't have my [seat] belt on. So I was reaching around to get the damn belt off the peg when I bumped a curb and hit a telephone pole. The Volvo was totaled. I got a fairly--forgive me, man, but if this is your best work--untalented surgeon. That's what I needed: more asymmetry in my face...
Espionage boomed during the 20th century, as World War II and the Cold War made invisible ink and encrypted messages more than just fodder for thrillers. Austro-Hungarian agent Dusko Popov, the reported inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond, gallivanted around Europe feeding false intelligence to the Nazis and sleeping with countless women. (His fondness for ménages à trois earned him the code name Tricycle.) British spymaster Kim Philby spent 30 years rising nearly to the top of MI6, only to be unmasked as a double agent in 1963--having sent decades of secrets to the Soviets...
...National Book Critics Circle, an organization that includes around 600 book reviewers, was founded in 1974 and has been giving annual awards ever since to highlight the best books and reviews written in the English language...
Ultimately, Counter’s team was able to provide shelter to around 500 people, as well as medical attention to a similar number of individuals...