Word: caking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...When we first arrived in Moscow, everything struck me as a dull gray," Schecter says. He remembers being depressed by "the wedding cake architecture, where you have these big flank wings and one big tower in the middle. A bunch of these buildings from the Stalin era still remain around Moscow." When the Schecters first arrived, the government put them up in a hotel. They remained in these cramped quarters for several months, until the government provided them with an apartment in Yugozapad, a suburb of Moscow...
...effort for recruiting from ethnic populations is on the American scene," Malin says, adding that "if the [admissions] committee was forced to make the choice, it would be more likely to take black Americans than black Africans." According to Malin, however, the University has been able "to have its cake and eat it too" since the admissions office has stepped up U.S. minority recruitment without cutting down the number of foreign acceptances...
Just when answers seem forthcoming, they are neatly sidestepped. When Cathy Cake (Jessica Harper), the seductive and immorally ambitious, aspiring starlet confronts The Boy Wonder, demanding to know why he has been reduced to such a pitiful ghost of his former self, he glibly replies that he is not scared of anything. When Miss Cake presses for an answer, an explanation is anticipated. But instead of pouring out his story, The Boy Wonder breaks down in tears and the mystery remains. Given Byrum's weakness for cliches, perhaps it is better that he avoids giving an overt answer. Such...
Coming on the eve of Prime Minister Harold Wilson's 60th birthday, the victory at Coventry was icing on his cake. Just a few weeks ago, he was facing incipient revolt from his party's left wing. The White Paper had warned that unchecked public spending would soon gobble up half of an average wage earner's salary in taxes. But to the left, the report's recipe for reducing spending sounded more like a Tory tract than a Labor manifesto. Said former Overseas Aid Minister Judith Hart: "The real struggle is not between the official...
With forward Dave Bell picking up a three-goal hat trick and adding three assists as frosting on the cake, Harvard's varsity hockey team surprised no one by swamping hapless Yale Saturday night in New Haven...