Search Details

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


Usage:

...efficiency, the Churchillian fighting spirit of the British, the Afro-Latin rhythms of the Brazilian game. It was even suggested that the dinky size of Dutch living space made their soccer players more innately aware of space than most others (a theory which ought to make Japan a world-beater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sprachen Zie Futbol? | 7/20/2004 | See Source »

...wiry, nervous guy, like Billy Bob Thornton with Tom Waits' rasp--thrums like a racing engine. "This is a show to me," he says, "not a sale." He struts around the lot wielding a toy chainsaw. There are pretty showgirls, a DJ and the "$88 car." (Find that unmarked beater, discounted from $1,695, and you get to take it home for fourscore and change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Depth of a Salesman | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

Hopes of bouncing back from its Ivy-opening loss to Dartmouth were dashed at Cornell on Jan. 30 when the Big Red beat the Crimson 66-64 off of an overtime buzzer-beater. Harvard followed with a solid win over Cornell the next day, but the pattern of winning one game and losing the other continued for three straight weekends...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hoops Falls In Destiny Year | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...course! Because the choice all of us have is either gambler, drug addict, drunk, or wife beater! On last check, grammar schools across the country weren’t lining up to book Charlie Hustle as a guest speaker...

Author: By David H. Stearns, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE COMMISH: What Were They Thinking? | 4/8/2004 | See Source »

...wasn’t a half-court buzzer-beater, but it got the job done...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Buzzer-Beater Leads to Another OT Loss for W. Hoops | 2/4/2004 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | Next