Search Details

Word: ate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Whether or not you think your Ec problem set will have the staying power of an intellectual masterpiece, it can be a real hassle to have to start a paper all over again because your computer ate it. And for faculty members, the words they write really are their lives' works, for better or for worse...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: tech TALK | 4/22/1997 | See Source »

Hold the salt, even for junior. Infants on a low-salt diet for the first six months of life--consuming slightly more than half a teaspoonful a day--had lower BLOOD PRESSURE readings 15 years later than those who ate three times as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Apr. 21, 1997 | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

...exclaim, ?Oh, God!? 46 times; silliest of all, the ornery whites and blacks who, when covered with gray ash, learn that, gee, Armageddon is colorblind. And just once in a disaster film, could a dog please die? All right, nobody cares. You just want to see the volcano that ate L.A. If so, you?ll have a hell-lava time." MOVIES . . . THE SHINING: Never pleased with Stanley Kubrick's 1980 filmed version of his novel, Stephen King was persuaded to remake "The Shining" into a three-part, six-hour miniseries. Featuring a teleplay by King himself, it would be sweet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Entertainment Guide | 4/18/1997 | See Source »

...illnesses so far have occurred in Michigan, where 151 students and a teacher became sick after eating the fruit last week. Schools in California, Arizona, Georgia, Iowa and Tennessee, also received the bad strawberries. Health officials in Los Angeles said up to 9,000 students and teachers who recently ate the berries would be offered protective gamma globulin shots, a treatment that is usually effective up to two weeks after exposure. The outbreak came during peak growing season in California, where 80 percent of the U.S. strawberry crop is grown, causing some worried suppliers to cancel orders. One grower said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poison Fruit | 4/2/1997 | See Source »

...word of their randomized fate, a considerate Housing Officer, charged with hand-delivering the envelopes containing the lottery results, saw fit to instead deposit them in a lovely pile in front of the dorm elevator. There the abandoned envelopes sat as the morning wore on and as rising anticipation ate away at the souls of dorm inhabitants...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: THE WIND BENEATH OUR WINGS | 3/21/1997 | See Source »

Previous | 182 | 183 | 184 | 185 | 186 | 187 | 188 | 189 | 190 | 191 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 195 | 196 | 197 | 198 | 199 | 200 | 201 | 202 | Next