Word: crueler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...forces of the divine intervened. The falling raindrops were replaced by Harvard home runs as St. Savior and company went to work. As the hits kept on coming, the idea of a Harvard loss became that much crueler and—given the slightest inkling of justice in the world—more unlikely...
...federal funding for character education. His motivation, of course, is not to replicate schools like mine but rather to placate social conservatives skeptical of the rest of his education plan, and, less cynically, to help schools navigate this new world of Columbine, Conyers, Jonesboro and Santee, where kids seem crueler and more prone to violence than ever before. Just this week three girls from Boonville, California - two 8 year-olds and one 9 year-old - were charged with attempted murder for allegedly sneaking pellets of gopher poison into the lunch sandwich of a classmate. They said they did it simply...
Only when the celebration ends in New Haven will a few of the brighter students realize that such transitory jubilation comes at a price. On the field, there is nothing crueler than a catch unanimously condemned, an uncertain victory leading to a title universally questioned. Fate, in her characteristic irony, has presented Yale with a double-edged sword, a transparent triumph ending in terrible tragedy...
...soldiers--Staff Sergeant Andrew Ramirez, Staff Sergeant Christopher Stone, Specialist 4 Steven Gonzales--captured, humiliated, perhaps tried, perhaps killed. This war is sophisticated supertech airplanes dropping tons of ordnance night after night that fail to stop the enemy's rifle-toting soldiers. This war is Slobodan Milosevic, cleverer and crueler than planners expected, so far getting the better of NATO...
...code-named "Field of Thorns," which calls for the retaking of the West Bank cities. Both sides know two things in advance of another fight: Israel will win it, and it will be horribly painful. "It'll be much bigger than last September," says an Israeli commander. "Much crueler, much bloodier, much more complicated...