Word: castoffs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...connections whom Arnie suspects (rightly) of seeking his island as a conduit for foreign narcotics. Matteo is both more and less than a customer, however. To a reformer like Arnie he is an irresistible candidate for moral redemption, and the way to reach him appears to be through his castoff, pregnant girlfriend, who has taken refuge under Arnie's mostly paternal wing. Arnie cannot keep faith with the past without summoning up its burdens. These arrive one day in the form of a familiar family hunting for a dream house along the gulf: Lex Graham, the ambitious colleague...
...Island foundries turned out the lamps that cast a gaudy glow in U.S. homes. Then Tiffany objects went out of style, and in the early 1930s their creator went bankrupt. In the late 1950s an art nouveau boom sent dealers scouring the attics of old mansions and manors for castoff Tiffany lamps. Would-be collectors may weep: a lamp much like Cobweb, which originally cost about $500, fetched a record $360,000 at auction three years...
...News, where President Roone Arledge has ardently wooed big names, staffers raised objections to Mudd as a potential anchor: he is a two-time castoff; hiring him would bypass ABC veterans; as a coworker, he is distant and demanding. Said ABC News Vice President Richard Wald: "We would rather have someone from inside." Among ABC correspondents, Jennings is the obvious choice. He was ABC'S anchor for three years, beginning in 1965, when he was only 27, and has been persuasive if cerebral as a London-based coanchor; since he shifted to Washington July 4 as a substitute...
Only a few months ago, John Connally shuttled between his campaign stops and his enormously successful fund-raising events in the splendor of a chartered Learjet. In his final days, Connally was hopping around the South in a Fairchild F27. It was a castoff from George Bush's Iowa days, the nickname "Asterisk One" only recently scratched off the fuselage...
Continuing its program of manned space exploration, NASA also made ingenious use of castoff Apollo hardware to create Skylab. Despite a troubled beginning and now its embarrassing demise, the giant space station represented another great leap. In 1973, three teams of astronauts occupied the station in rapid succession, one remaining aloft for 84 days. That record was not beaten by the Russians until 1978. More important, it proved to all doubters-and there were many-that humans could live and work together in space for long periods, conquering both isolation and the physical effects of weightlessness, such as weakening...