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They found his body in his cell early one morning last week. Heinrich Lembke, 44, a forester and a dedicated neo-Nazi, had hanged himself with a radio cord. He had been arrested when police found drawings in his home leading to arms that were buried around his property near Hamburg. But before he committed suicide, Lembke told authorities of an arsenal of weapons, some 90 crates of hand grenades, guns, ammunition, plus poison, that was concealed at 33 sites throughout the countryside. The discoveries, the largest of their kind in West German history, were alarming evidence of a rising...
DIED. Bill Muncey, 52, dean of the hydroplane superstars; of a severed spinal cord suffered in a crash during championship competition; in Acapulco, Mexico. In three decades of competition, Muncey thunderballed to more victories (61), championships (seven) and Gold Cups (eight) than any other competitor who raced unlimited hydroplanes at 200 m.p.h. or better. A survivor of countless crashes, Muncey said in 1979: "Anything less than death is a minor accident...
...bisexual. He was doing time at Attica during the prison's 1971 riots, shrugs Rose, and "he flipped his brains. That's why I divorced him." His father beat Baby Love up often with his fists, says Rose, and once he did so with an extension cord. When Baby Love retaliated with a piece of heavy steel pipe, she recalls, his father took him to the police and demanded, futilely, that he be locked...
...line, forgetting just why the line began in the first place. No pratfall is beneath him. His pun can still be mightier than his word, and he delights in portmanteau items, as in the case of the little band of fundamentalists who obstinately refuse to cut their "umbibli-cal" cord. But at times his verbal games can become so outrageous that you can't see de words for De Vries...
...distract from their drilling. Adds Boston's Corley: "People use them to fall asleep. I hear these things are going to replace Quaaludes." Detroit Law Student Richard Green has found one potential hazard: "I put on my earphones when I fool around with my girlfriend. But sometimes the cord gets...