Word: birth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...another coincidence, all this took place just as two forms of ethnic music, rhythm 'n blues and country, were mating and giving birth to rock 'n roll. Local stations could now lure listeners on the cheap. And at 11 or 12 years old, I was one of them. I bonded with this wonderful new music coming out of their boxes, and with the local disc jockeys. I never met these guys, but they were my older brothers, my pop mentors, the men whose high energy and rhyming jive provided a verbal equivalent to early rock 'n roll...
...each have half. The first woman says, "Fine, thanks," and the second bursts into tears and pleads with the king to give the baby to her rival. Solomon, of course, hands the baby to the second woman, knowing that she was the true birth mother. It?s a classic example of Solomon?s proverbial wisdom...
...seem to care if the embryos are used for stem cell research. You don't see too many pro-life protests outside of fertility clinics. It's like a reverse take on the old saying that right-to-lifers only care about life from the moment of conception until birth, but not after...
...lives of thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary, disappeared in 1944, the year she was born. Although she never knew him, "the absence of Raoul was always present in my life," she says. "His last letter from Budapest was to congratulate my mother, his sister, on my birth...
...link the text of proceedings in Britain's Houses of Parliament to Web broadcasts of them. And at www.speechbot.com, Compaq's experimental voice-recognition software is transcribing Web TV and radio programs automatically. "Online is the preferred environment for almost everybody at this point," says Quint. "It's the birth of the universal library, in a sense." Many years of construction remain before it can be inaugurated, but as the invisible Web swims into focus, we begin to glimpse the awesome scale of Tim Berners-Lee's vision...